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Theo Pillay

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Theo Pillay

SVP & GM Academic Information Systems

Elsevier

Theo Pillay leads Elsevier's Academic Information Systems (AIS) group. AIS helps academic institutions with a variety of needs, such as providing insights to develop more effective research strategies, managing academic evaluation, and showcasing institutions, their scholars and their scholarly output to grow their reputation, driving increased collaboration and impact.  

Theo joined Elsevier in 2012, and has a deep interest in academic evaluation, research ecosystems and scholarly communications. Theo holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Natal, Durban, and an MBA from INSEAD, and has previously worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in Amsterdam, an Operations manager at Element Six in Ireland, and as a Research Scientist at the De Beers Diamond Research Laboratory in South Africa.