Patrick De Pelsmacker(b. 1957) holds a PhD in
economics (University of Ghent, Belgium). He is Professor
of Marketing at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and
part-time Professor of Marketing at the University of
Ghent. He has also worked at the University of Brussels
(VUB). He is or has been a regular guest lecturer at
various institutes, such as the Rotterdam School of
Management (The Netherlands), the Swedish Institute
of Management (Brussels, Stockholm), the China-Europe
Management Centre (Antwerp), the Centre for Manage-
ment Training (University of Warsaw, Poland), the Institute
of Business Studies (Moscow, Russia) and Ca’Foscari
University (Venice, Italy). He also has teaching experi-
ence in management and marketing programmes in
France, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam,
Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. He
has undertaken numerous in-company training and
consultancy assignments.
His field of interest is mainly in marketing research
techniques, consumer behaviour and marketing com-
munications. He has co-authored textbooks on marketing
research techniques, and has written over eighty articles
in various journals, including Applied Economics, Inter-
national Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of
Advertising,Psychology and Marketing, International
Journal of Advertising, Journal of Marketing Communi-
cations, Advances in Consumer Research,Journal of
Business Ethics,Journal of Consumer Affairs,Journal of
International Consumer Marketing, Journal of Euro-Asian
Economics, International MarketingReview, Educational
and Psychological Measurements, and Psychological
Reports. He has contributed to more than twenty books
and over sixty research reports and working papers on
various marketing-related topics.
Maggie Geuens(b. 1969) holds a PhD in Applied
Economics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium,where
she also worked as an assistant professor. Currently she
is Professor of Marketing at the University of Ghent. She
is academic director of the Brand Management Centre
at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. She
also has teaching experience in The Netherlands, Italy,
Kazakhstan, Russia and Vietnam. She is involved in
in-company training and consultancy on a regular basis.
Her main field of research interest is in advertising
and consumer behaviour. She has co-authored a book,
Marketing Management, and has contributed to books
and to over twenty working papers and research reports
in this field, and has published in journals such as
International Journal of Advertising, Journal of Marketing
Communications, Psychology and Marketing, International
Marketing Review, Journal of Advertising,Journal of
Health Communication,Psychologica Belgica, Journal
of Business Research,Tourism Management, Advances
in Consumer Research, Psychological Review, Educa-
tional and Psychological Measurementand Journal of
Consumer and Market Research.
Joeri Van den Bergh(b. 1971) holds a masters degree
in marketing (University of Ghent and the Vlerick Leuven
Gent Management School). He started his career as a
researcher at the Marketing Communication Research
Centre, and later became senior researcher, involved in
the activities of this Centre, as well as the Kids and Teens
Marketing Centre, and the Senior Consumer Marketing
Centre. He is co-founder and managing partner of InSites
Consulting, the European online market research pioneer.
He is a regular teacher in various marketing programmes,
has been involved in in-company training and consul-
tancy, and is a Counsellor of the Board of Ancienne
Belgique (AB), a large concert venue in Belgium.
His main field of interest is marketing communications,
and especially internet communications and research
techniques. He has contributed to various books and
to over thirty research reports in these fields. He has
published in journals including International Journal of
Advertisingand the Journal of International Consumer
Marketing.
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