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Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour is currently CEO of IGI Global Scientific Publishing headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, with additional offices in New York City and Beijing, China. He is a...view moreMehdi Khosrow-Pour is currently CEO of IGI Global Scientific Publishing headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, with additional offices in New York City and Beijing, China. He is also the President of eContent Pro (a company of MKP Technologies), and serves as the Executive Director of the World Forgotten Children Foundation, a charitable organization focused on supporting children with physical and mental disabilities and underprivileged communities worldwide. Prior to his current roles, Dr. Khosrow-Pour was a Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Systems at Penn State University for nearly 20 years. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Miami, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Florida Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems (MS CIS) from the University of Miami, and a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) with a concentration in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has served as the editor-in-chief of the world-renowned Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology since 2002 and is currently working on its seventh edition, a ten-volume set and is also editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Modern Artificial Intelligence, a five-volume set. Additionally, he has served as editor of numerous other books and journals on all aspects of information systems and authored more than 100 research papers. He is married to Olga Khosrow-Pour, and they have two sons together: Darius (8 years old) and Cyrus (5 years old). In the Khosrow-Pour household, they say the boys are handsome, mommy is beautiful, and daddy is simply lucky!view less