Board of Directors
Chair
Goksel Yalcinkaya
Professor of Marketing
University of New Hampshire
Goksel Yalcinkaya is a Professor of Marketing at the University of New Hampshire’s Paul College of Business and Economics. He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. His current research interests include new product launches, diffusion of innovations, and international marketing. His research has been published in numerous leading academic journals including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of World Business, International Marketing Review, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and others. He received the Hans B. Thorelli Award from the American Marketing Association for significant long term-contributions to International Marketing Theory and Practice in 2015. Currently, he serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Marketing, is an Associate Editor of Rutgers Business Review, and a chair of the AMA Global Marketing SIG.
Contact Info:
Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824-3547
E-Mail: goksel.yalcinkaya@unh.edu
Phone: (603) 862-3376
Immediate Past Chair
Annie Peng Cui
Professor and Chair of Marketing Department
West Virginia University
Dr. Annie Peng Cui is a Professor and Chair of Marketing at West Virginia University. She was elected to the AMA Global Marketing SIG Board in 2009. She previously served as an office of the American Marketing Association's DocSIG. She holds an MA in Media Management and Ph.D. in Marketing from Kent State University.
Her research and teaching interests include brand management, international marketing, and consumer behavior.
Contact Info:
Office #208
College of Business and Economics
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506
Email: annie.cui@mail.wvu.edu
Phone: (304) 293-6657
Academic Advisor and Membership Coordinator
Constantine S. Katsikeas
Arnold Ziff Research Chair in Marketing and International Management
Leeds University Business School
Professor Constantine S. Katsikeas is the Arnold Ziff Research Chair in Marketing and International Management and Director of the Global and Strategic Marketing Research Center at Leeds University Business School, Leeds University, U.K. He was the head of the Marketing Division during the period 2004-2010 and served as Faculty Executive Board Member of the School between 2007 and 2010. Prior to this, he had the Sir Julian Hodge Chair in Marketing and International Business at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He holds a B.Sc. from Athens University of Economics and Business, an M.A. from Lancaster University, and a Ph.D. from Cardiff University. His doctoral studies were supported by a scholarship from the ONASSIS Foundation. His main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of marketing and sales management, international marketing/management, strategic alliances, and competitive strategy. He has published widely in these fields and his articles have appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Decision Sciences, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of World Business, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, and other journals.
Contact Info:
Arnold Ziff Research Chair in Marketing and
International Management
Head of Marketing Division
Leeds University Business School
Maurice Keyworth Building
Leeds University
Leeds LS2 9JT
Email: buscsk@leeds.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 113 343 2624
PhD Liaison
Kelly Hewett
Professor of Marketing
Reagan Professor of Business
University of Tennessee
Kelly Hewett joined the department after a five-year stay at Bank of America, where she was a senior vice president in the firm’s corporate marketing group. While at Bank of America, she developed marketing strategies for new products, led consumer insight work to drive the company’s communications strategies, and was the primary liaison among the firm’s marketing, innovation, and new product development groups. She simultaneously served as an Executive in Residence at the Media Lab at MIT, working with graduate students on research projects relevant to the banking industry.
Prior to joining Bank of America, she had a 10-year career as a marketing academic, specializing in her research and teaching on global marketing strategy and buyer-seller relationships. In her prior role as a marketing research consultant, she specialized in new product development and customer experience research, working with clients such as IBM, Motorola, Ferrari, and Rolls Royce.
Her research has been published in top academic journals in both Marketing and International Business fields, including the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of International Business Studies, and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, among others. She has consulted and supervised projects for numerous companies including BSN-Jobst, Ingersoll Rand, Global Spectrum, Inc., Blue Cross Blue Shield, Milliken and Company, Club Car, Inc., Buck Baker Racing School, Farm Bureau Insurance, and Solectron Corporation. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her research, teaching, and service.
Contact Info:
Associate Professor of Marketing
Haslam College of Business
University of Tennessee
310 Stokely Management Center
Knoxville, TN 37996-0530
E-mail: khewett@utk.edu
Phone: (865) 974-1656
Financial Planning
Peter Magnusson
Professor and Chair of Marketing Department
University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley
Peter Magnusson is a Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Marketing at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
His research specializes in the areas of international marketing strategy and international consumer behavior, with a particular interest in the influence of culture and institutional factors on cross-cultural differences in consumer behavior and international marketing strategy.
His research specializes in the areas of international marketing strategy and international consumer behavior, with a particular interest in the influence of culture and institutional factors on cross-cultural differences in consumer behavior and international marketing strategy. His research has been published in, among others, the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of International Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, International Business Review, and International Marketing Review. Dr. Magnusson is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of International Marketing and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, International Marketing Review, and Global Strategy Journal.
Contact Info:
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Marketing
Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship
ECOBE 211B
E-Mail: peter.magnusson@utrgv.edu
Phone: (954) 654-8176
Conference Liaison
Constantinos Leonidou
Professor of Marketing and Business Administration at the Faculty of Economics and Management
Open University of Cyprus.
Constantinos is a Professor of Marketing and Business Administration at the Faculty of Economics and Management of Open University of Cyprus. He was formerly Professor of Marketing and Head of the Marketing Department (i.e., Department Chair) at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds. He holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Middlesex University (2004), an MBA from Cardiff University (2006), and a Ph.D. in Marketing and Strategy from the University of Leeds (2009).
His main research and teaching interests focus on sustainability marketing, corporate responsibility, international marketing, and tourism/hospitality marketing. His research has appeared in many journals of international repute, such as the Industrial Marketing Management, International Business Review, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of World Business, and Tourism Management among others.
He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Research and a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of International Marketing. He also reviews on an ad-hoc basis for many other academic journals and regularly presents his work at leading international academic conferences across the globe. He is a member of the Directors’ Board of the American Marketing Association’s Global Marketing Special Interest Group.
He has taught in many undergraduate and postgraduate programs and served as an external examiner for the University of Glasgow and King's College London.
He has a successful track record in doctoral supervision, having supervised five students to completion and currently overseeing a number of students at different stages in the areas of sustainability, international marketing, and strategy. He has also supervised many MBA/MA/MSc student dissertations and projects in these areas and has served as an internal and external examiner of doctoral students.
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Contact Info:
Professor of Marketing and Business Administration
Faculty of Economics and Management
Open University of Cyprus
E-Mail: C.Leonidou@ouc.ac.cy
Phone: +357 22 41 1929
Conference Liaison
Daekwan Kim
Professor of Marketing
Florida State University
Daekwan Kim is a professor in the Dr. Persis E. Rockwood School of Marketing at Florida State University’s College of Business. His research interests include the impact of IT on firms’ marketing strategies and activities, marketing/international marketing strategies, multinational brand management, customer equity, and international buyer-seller relationships. His research has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of International Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, International Marketing Review, and other journals.
Kim received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Yonsei University in South Korea and his MBA in international business and management information systems from Kent State University. His Ph.D. is in marketing from Michigan State University.
Contact Info:
Professor of Marketing
College of Business
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
E-Mail: dkim@business.fsu.edu
Phone: (850) 644-7890
Conference Liaison
Magnus Hultman
Associate Professor of Marketing
Brock University
Magnus Hultman began teaching at Goodman School of Business in 2021 and is the current Brock IPBS Research Scholar. He holds a BSc and an MSc in International Business and Economics, in addition to a Ph.D. in Industrial Marketing, from Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. Prior to his current position, Dr. Hultman worked as an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Leeds where he is still affiliated as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow. Before that, Dr. Hultman worked as a Lecturer at Luleå University of Technology and has also been involved in consultancy work for a number of local and international organizations on issues relating to marketing research and strategy. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the financial industry. Dr. Hultman has significant teaching and supervision experience and has been invited to teach at several locations across North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. He has taught at various levels including undergrad, postgrad, Ph.D., management development, and executive training programs. He is multiple recipient of teaching and supervision excellence awards.
Dr. Hultman's research has been published in internationally renowned academic journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Marketing, Psychology & Marketing, and Tourism Management among others. His work is also regularly presented at leading international academic conferences across the world. His research is award-winning in the form of numerous best paper awards at international conferences and journals including the prestigious S. Tamer Cavusgil Award for the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of international marketing management. In addition to being a recurring reviewer for many of the top journals in his field, Dr. Hultman is also on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of International Marketing and serves as Associate Editor of International Marketing Review.
Contact Info:
Associate Professor of Marketing
Goodman School of Business
Brock University
E-Mail: mhultman@brocku.ca
Webmaster/
Social Media Communication
Goksel Yalcinkaya
Professor of Marketing
University of New Hampshire
Contact Info:
Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824-3547
E-Mail: goksel.yalcinkaya@unh.edu
Phone: (603) 862-3376
Past Chairs & Board Members
Frank Franzak
Associate Professor of Marketing
Virginia Commenwealth
Frank Franzak is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the VCU School of Business. Dr. Franzak has been a part of the department since 1986, serving as Chair from July 2002 to July 2008. Previous to his appointment at VCU, he was on the faculty of Boston College School of Management. He is currently the Curriculum Coordinator for the VCU Executive MBA program, and Faculty Advisor for the Master of Science in Business, Global Marketing Management concentration. From 2012 to 2015, he served as Coordinator for the VCU da Vinci Center Master of Product Innovation program. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Marketing Association's Global Marketing Special Interest Group, serving as the Immediate Past Chair following six years as Board Chair. Consultative projects in the innovation/product launch area have involved student teams working with the Virginia Biosciences Commercialization Center and the VCU Office of Technology Transfer. Similar student project efforts in the global arena collaborated with the international trade office of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.
Contact Info:
Associate Professor of Marketing
VCU School of Business
Email: fjfranza@vcu.edu
Phone: (804) 828-7090
David A. Griffith
Hallie Vanderhider Chair in Business and Professor of Marketing
Texas A&M University
David A. Griffith is Hallie Vanderhider Chair in Business and Professor of Marketing at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was Chairperson of the Department of Marketing (2012-2018), and the holder of the Iacocca Chair at Lehigh University. He also served as the John William Byington Endowed Chair in Global Marketing and Professor of Marketing at Michigan State University, where he was the Director of the Ph.D. Program. He has also served as a member of the faculty at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, the Japan-America Institute of Management Science, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, and the University of Oklahoma.
David is recognized as an authority on marketing strategy, with specialized knowledge of inter-firm governance, global marketing, and innovation. His research has been published in numerous academic journals including the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, etc. He served as the Editor-in-Chief (2008-2013) of the AMA’s Journal of International Marketing and as a member of the American Marketing Association’s Academic Council (2014-2017). He is the recipient of the 2019 Significant Contributions to Global Marketing Award presented by the AMA Global Marketing Special Interest Group, is a two-time recipient of the AMA’s Hans B. Thorelli Award (2018, 2015) for significant and long-term contributions to international marketing theory or practice, as well as a two-time recipient of the AMA Global Marketing Special Interest Group’s Excellence in Research Award (2018, 2014). He has been recognized numerous times for his impact and productivity. In 2019 he was identified as being one of the most productive scholars in the leading two marketing journals (i.e., Journal of Marketing and Journal of Marketing Research) over the time period 2009-2018 (he was also recognized similarly in each of the last 6 rankings [2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018]). In the field of international marketing in 2018, via an analysis of the time period 1995-2015, he was ranked 1st worldwide in terms of publication output based upon proportional authorship, 2nd in terms of the total number of publications, and 5th in terms of citation impact in the international marketing literature. In 2017 he was recognized as one of the most prolific scholars in the Journal of International Business Studies over the time period 1970-2016. He was named a “Rising Star” for the Economics & Business Discipline in 2010 by Thomson Reuters for his impact in the field. He serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of World Business, and the Academy of Marketing Science Review.
David’s current teaching interests are in marketing analytics, marketing strategy, global marketing, innovation and international business. David has received the John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Teacher-Scholar Award (Michigan State University), Dennis Ching Teaching Excellence Award (University of Hawai’i at Manoa), University of Oklahoma Associates Teaching Fellow, Outstanding Professor (University of Oklahoma), Excellence in Leadership (University of Oklahoma).
Contact Info:
Hallie Vanderhider Chair in Business
Professor of Marketing
Mays Business School
Texas A&M University
220C Wehner 4112 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4112
Email: dgriffith@mays.tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 845-7257
Michael R. Czinkota
Professor of Marketing
Georgetown University
Michael Czinkota was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the AMA Global Marketing SIG in 1994. Professor Czinkota is on the faculty of marketing and international business of the Graduate School and the Robert McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He also serves as Chairman of FIBER, the Foundation for International Business Education and Research, in Washington D.c. He has held professional appointments at universities in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.
Dr. Czinkota served in the U.S. government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce. He was responsible for macro trade analysis, departmental support of international trade negotiations and retaliatory actions, and policy coordination for international finance, investment, and monetary affairs. He also served as Head of the U.S. Delegation to the OECD Industry Committee in Paris and as Senior Trade Advisor for Export Controls.
Dr. Czinkota's background includes eight years of private sector business experience as a partner in an export-import firm and in an advertising agency and seventeen years of research and teaching in the academic world. He has been the recipient of research grants from various organizations, including the National Science Foundation, the National Commission of Jobs and Small Business, and the Organization of American States. He was listed as one of the three most published contributors to international business research in the Journal of International Business Studies and has written several books including International Marketing, The Global Marketing Imperative, and Trends in International Business.
Dr. Czinkota served on the Board of Directors of the American Marketing Association and is on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Marketing Science. He is (or has served) on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, International Marketing Review and Asian Journal of Marketing. He was named distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science. For his work in international business and trade policy, he has been awarded honorary degrees from the Universidad Pontificia Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic and the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru.
Dr. Czinkota advises a wide range of individuals and institutions in the United States and abroad. He serves on several corporate boards and has worked with corporations such as AT&T, IBM, GE, Nestl, and US WEST. He also has assisted various governmental organizations in the structuring of effective trade promotion policies.
Contact Info:
Professor of Marketing
McDonough School of Business
Georgetown University
Washington DC 20057
Email: czinkotm@georgetown.edu
Phone: (202) 687-4204
Camille P. Schuster
Professor of Marketing
Cal State San Marcos
Camille P. Schuster was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the AMA Global Marketing SIG in 1994. Camille served as Chairperson of the SIG from 1994-1995 and again from 2005-2007, as International Liaison from 1996- 2001, as Treasurer from 2002-2004, and as Chair-Elect from 2004-2005. Camille's service also includes chairing numerous conference events, serving as a reviewer, session chair and discussant, as well as serving as SIG historian.
Camille is a professor of marketing specializing in international marketing. She has published one book entitled Global Business: Planning for Sales and Negotiations with Michael Copeland from Procter & Gamble, which is considered by many to be a seminal work in cross-cultural negotiations. A second book entitled "Newer Insights into Cross-Cultural Marketing" with Dr. Phil Harris from The Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England has also gathered numerous accolades. Camille's primary research interests are in the area of cross-cultural negotiations, and the influence of culture on marketing strategy and managerial decision-making. She is the President of Global Interactions. Camille is an active publisher in academic and professional journals and her articles have appeared in:
Journal of International Marketing
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Journal of Advertising
International Journal of Customer Relationship Management
Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
Industrial Marketing Management
Journal of Global Marketing, as well as many other journals.
Widely recognized in the international community, Camille is a frequent speaker/consultant to the business community. She had conducted training programs, presented lectures, and consulted with companies in Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
Ruediger Kaufmann Hans
Professor
Department of Management
University of Nicosia
After extensive experience in German Bank Management, Hans Ruediger Kaufmann completed his sponsored Ph.D. in 1997 and was a research assistant and then a lecturer (p-t) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Later, he worked in Budapest, first as Course Director Marketing for the Chartered Institute of Marketing and then as an Assistant Professor in Marketing at the International Management Centre Budapest as well as a contractual consultant. At the University of Applied Sciences Liechtenstein, he was Academic Director of Private Banking and, later, Head of the Competence Centre International Management. Since October 2006 he is an Associate Professor at the University of Nicosia. He has been a launching member and President (2007-2009) of the international research network on consumer behavior, CIRCLE. He is currently Vice-President of the EuroMed Research Business Institute (EMBRI). He is a member of the editorial board of a variety of journals and an Associate Editor of the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management, and Sustainable Development. He is Visiting Professor at the International Business School of Vilnius University. As Vice-Chair of Communication Rudi is a board member of the AMA Global Marketing SIG.
Contact Info:
School of Business
Associate Professor of Management
University of Nicosia
President of CIRCLE (2007-2009)
Vice-President of the EuroMed Research Business Institute
Email: kaufmann.r@unic.ac.cy