Biography: Michelle McLeod (PhD) is Lecturer in Tourism Management at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her tourism industry experience spans over twenty-five years. Her present research interests are in the subject areas of tourism, knowledge networks, open data ecosystems, policy networks, destination networks and service productivity.

Her recent works include a book entitled "Knowledge Networks and Tourism" published by Routledge and an article entitled "Mapping an emergent Open Data eco-system" published in the Journal of Community Informatics.