Christine Legner is a Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne in Switzerland and an Academic Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research. Her research fields are data strategy and data management, enterprise architecture and strategic IT planning. She is the co-founder and academic director of the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ), an industry-funded research consortium and expert community. In the CC CDQ, she and the research team work with industry experts from Fortune 500 companies to develop concepts, tools and methods that advance enterprise data management. Together with Professor Olivier Verscheure, she is co-director of the Executive Certificate in Data Science and Management (CAS), a joint program offered by University of Lausanne and EPFL.
Professor Legner has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals and conference proceedings. She is also editor of a book on Strategic Enterprise Architecture Management and has co-authored eBooks on data strategy, data value and data catalogs.
Professor Legner has received a post-doctoral qualification (Habilitation) and doctorate from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and has been visiting researcher at INSEAD, Stanford University and HEC Montreal.
