John B. Ford – Editor-in-Chief
Dr. John B. Ford is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advertising Research. Based in Norfolk, Va., John is an eminent scholar and professor of marketing and international business at Old Dominion University. His research has focused on cross-cultural advertising strategy issues. In particular, he has specialized in viewer perceptions of gender-role portrayals in international advertising. John’s work has been published in a wide variety of journals including Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Advertising, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
Geoffrey Precourt – Editor Emeritus
Geoffrey Precourt became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advertising Research in 2008 and Editor Emeritus in 2016. He also serves as U.S. editor for Warc. Geoffrey held senior editorial roles at titles including Strategy + Business, Point, Smart Business and Fortune, edited the book CMO Thought Leaders, and was co-author of Always On: Advertising, Marketing, and Media in an Era of Consumer Control (McGraw-Hill, 2008). He likes dogs and ice cream.
Les Carlson – Associate Editor
Les Carlson holds the Nathan Gold Distinguished Professorship in the College of Business Marketing Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a former editor of the Journal of Advertising and associate editor of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. In Spring 2017, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Advertising. His research inter-ests focus on consumer socialization and green marketing together with the public policy and ad-vertising implications of both of these interest areas.
Albert Caruana – Associate Editor
Albert Caruana is Professor of Marketing at the University of Malta, Malta. He has undertaken postdoctoral research as Fulbright scholar in the US and as Commonwealth scholar in the UK and in Australia. His research interests focus primarily on marketing communications and services marketing. His work includes papers published in the Journal of Advertising; Journal of Advertising Research; Journal of Business Research; Industrial Marketing Management; Journal of Marketing Education and European Journal of Marketing.
Micael Dahlén – Associate Editor
Micael is professor at the Center for Consumer Marketing, Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). He has published research on advertising, branding, media and consumer behavior, written books on topics ranging from creativity, to happiness, habits, aliens and evil, and is a public speaker in business and entertainment.
Jean-Luc Herrmann – Associate Editor
Dr. Jean-Luc Herrmann is Full Professor of Marketing and Head of the CEREFIGE Research Center at the University of Lorraine, France. His research interests focus on persuasive communication, especially on advertising and sponsorship effects. He has recently published in Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Advertising, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Advances in Consumer Research, and Recherche et Applications en Marketing (the French leading marketing journal). At the French Marketing Association (AFM) he is responsible for developing relationships with the AMS community.
Scott Koslow – Associate Editor
Scott Koslow researches advertising creativity, strategy and effectiveness. Currently professor of marketing at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, he previously taught at the University of Texas, the University of Michigan and the University of Waikato in New Zealand. His PhD is from the University of Southern California. Scott has consulted for automotive, FMCG, retail and pharmaceutical clients. He has also worked with most major advertising agencies brands in leading creative centers like New York, London, Amsterdam, Sydney, Melbourne and elsewhere.
Altaf Merchant – Associate Editor
Altaf Merchant is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Milgard School of Business, University of Washington Tacoma, USA. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Lorraine and Aix Marseille University in France and a Senior Research Fellow at King’s College (UK). His research has been published in the Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Advertising, among others. He serves as Program Co-Chair of the 2019 Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference to be held in Vancouver, BC.
Magda Nenycz–Thiel – Associate Editor
Magda Nenycz–Thiel is Mars professor of marketing at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science, University of South Australia. Her areas of expertise are marketing metrics, category growth, online buying behavior and neuro. Until recently, Nenycz-Thiel led the Mars Marketing Laboratory, a research and development initiative at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute. Her work is published in the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of European Marketing and other journals. Magda regularly presents at domestic and international conferences to industry and academics, and to the Institute’s global Corporate Sponsors on various topics.
Leyland Pitt – Associate Editor
Leyland Pitt is Professor of Marketing and the Dennis F. Culver EMBA Alumni Chair of Business, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, and affiliate Professor of Marketing at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. The focus of his research is on the interface between marketing and technology. His work has been published in Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Advertising, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, MIS Quarterly, and Business Horizons, which he currently serves as Associate Editor.
Nanette Burns – Managing Editor
Nanette Burns is managing editor of the Journal of Advertising Research. She has reported, written, and edited for both digital and print media, having held senior editorial roles at Dow Jones, Time Inc., and Knight-Ridder. Her work as a custom content editor for marketing media spans lifestyle and entertainment, personal finance and investing, and small business. A musician and Francophile, Nanette enjoys raising a family in Greenwich Village, New York.
To contact the editors email jar@thearf.org, or call Nanette at 646.465.5728