June Cotte

June Cotte is Professor of Marketing at the Ivey Business School. Her diverse, multi-method research interests include how people perceive time and how that influences their behavior. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, MIT/Sloan Management Review, the Wall Street Journal, as well as in other academic journals and books, and she has garnered more than $1.1 million in research grants for her work. Professor Cotte is President of the Association for Consumer Research and Past Chair of the American Marketing Association’s Consumer Behavior Special Interest Group (CBSIG). In addition, she is a formidable proponent of women in academia; she co-founded the “Designing Your Career in the Marketing Academy” initiative, which is designed for female early career marketing scholars.

Christine Moorman

Christine Moorman is the T. Austin Finch, Sr. Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Her research examines the nature and effects of learning and knowledge utilization about marketing by consumers, managers, organizations, and financial markets. Her research has been published in the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, and Marketing Science and supported by grants from NSF and MSI. Christine is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marketing and previously served as an Associate Editor for JM and JMR and on the ERBs for Journal of Consumer Research and Marketing Science. She was named the AMA-Irwin-McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator in 2018 and an AMA Fellow in 2017, received the 2012 Paul D. Converse award for significant contributions to marketing, and the 2008 Mahajan Award. She has served on the Board of Directors and chair of the Marketing Strategy SIG for the AMA, as Director of Public Policy for ACR, and as an Academic Trustee for MSI. Christine is founder of The CMO Survey (www.cmosurvey.org) which is dedicated to improving the value of marketing in firms and in society and author of Strategy from the Outside In: Profiting from Customer Value (winner of the 2011 Berry Book Prize).

Page Moreau

Page Moreau is the John R. Nevin Professor of Marketing and Executive Director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Page’s research focuses primarily on innovation and creativity, with the goal of understanding the demand for and creation of new products. Specifically, she is interested in how and why consumers learn about, purchase, and create new products. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Her work has been honored with a JCR Best Article Award and she has been recognized as a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar. Page has served as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Consumer Research and as a member of the editorial review boards at the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, and IJRM.

Andrew Stephen

Andrew Stephen is the L’Oréal Professor of Marketing, Associate Dean of Research, and Director of the Oxford Future of Marketing Initiative at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His research, predominantly on topics that lie at the intersections of consumer behavior, digital technologies, and marketing communications have appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Harvard Business Review, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. His research has received a number of awards, and he was honored by the Marketing Science Institute both as an MSI Young Scholar and as an MSI Scholar. Prior to his JCR editorship, he was co-editor of the International Journal of Research in Marketing. Within the marketing profession, he serves in an advisory capacity to a number of organizations, such as the Institute for Real Growth (board member), General Assembly (marketing standards board member), and Teradata (advanced analytics council).

Harald van Heerde

Harald van Heerde (Ph.D., University of Groningen, the Netherlands) is SHARP Research Professor of Marketing at the University of New South Wales. Harald specializes in econometric models to improve marketing decision making. His research interests include measuring the sales effects of advertising, price, sales promotion and new media, loyalty programs, strategies to build brands and brand equity, electronic word of mouth, retailing, attribution modeling, customer acquisition, entertainment marketing and the role of PR and publicity. Van Heerde is ranked in the top 10 of marketing scholars worldwide based on his publications in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research and Marketing Science. Harald’s research has been awarded with eight best paper awards: O’Dell & Green Award (JMR), 2x Long-term Impact Award (Marketing Science), MSI/H. Paul Root Best Paper Award (JM), 2 x Best Paper Award (IJRM), Steenkamp Long-term Impact Award (IJRM). Van Heerde serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Marketing and has served as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science and IJRM. Van Heerde has attracted over $2 million in research grants and is Extramural Fellow at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

30th November 2020

Mark Ritson is past Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Melbourne Business School. He has a PhD in Marketing and has been a marketing professor at London Business School and the University of Minnesota and a visiting professor at MIT Sloan and SMU. He has won MBA teaching awards at LBS, MIT, Singapore Management University and MBS.


Mark has worked globally as a private marketing consultant for clients that have included Baxter, Loewe, McKinsey, PepsiCo, Subaru, Eli Lilly, Donna Karan, Westpac, Shiseido, Flight Centre, Johnson & Johnson, De Beers, Sephora, Benefit, Amgen, Ericsson, Jurlique, Cloudy Bay, Unilever, KPMG and WD40.
For thirteen years - from 2002 to 2015 - he served as in-house Professor for LVMH - the world's largest luxury group - working in Europe with senior executives from brands such as Louis Vuitton, Dom Perignon and Hennessy. 


He writes a weekly column for Marketing Week and for The Australian. On three occasions he has been judged the Business Columnist of the Year at the PPA Press Awards, the highest award for magazine journalism in the UK and was the British Society of Magazine Editors Business Columnist of the Year in 2018. His more scholarly publications include articles in the Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Advertising and the Journal of Consumer Research. 


He is a Thouron Scholar and was the recipient of the Ferber Award for his doctoral thesis. His co-authored pricing research was cited by George Akerlof during his 2001 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.


In 2018 he was rated one of the “Power 50” most important people in media by AdNews, one of ten top business thinkers in Australia by Smart Company, and recognised by the AMI with the Sir Charles McGrath Award, the highest honour for marketing in Australia.

Mark Ritson

1st December 2020

Naomi is a member of the Faculty’s Business and Economics Board at the University of Melbourne. Known as an entrepreneur and a business leader, Naomi Simson co-founded the Big Red Group (BRG) with business partner David Anderson in 2017. BRG serves experiences to different audiences through its various brands: RedBalloon, Adrenaline and IfOnly.com for Australia Redii.com. BRG also includes Marketics AI the exclusive distributor of Albert AI in ANZ. BRG serves an experience every minute and is currently a customer centric $100m enterprise.

Naomi is a passionate supporter of Australian business, a prolific blogger and business commentator, best-selling author and much sought-after keynote speaker. She has appeared as the #RedShark in four seasons of Australia’s Shark Tank.

A true business leader and influencer, with more than 2.8 million LinkedIn followers, Naomi is Australia’s most followed person on the business networking platform. She has authored two best-selling books “Live What You Love”, and “Ready to Soar”.

Before founding RedBalloon, Naomi worked for big businesses including IBM, Apple, KPMG and Ansett Airlines – all of which influenced her passionate views on workplaces. She is currently a governor of the Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation and is an advisor to a number of other not for profit institutions.


Naomi Simson

2nd December 2020

Russel Howcroft is an Australian businessman and media personality with over 30 years’ 

experience in screen, media and advertising industries. He has held significant leadership 

roles such as CEO of Young and Rubicam Brands Australia and New Zealand, and Executive 

General Manager of the Australian free-to-air television broadcaster Network Ten. He is

currently Partner and Chief Creative Officer for PwC Australia.


Russell has served on a number of boards and foundations which focus on arts and film, including the Australian Film Institute, the Screen Forever Advisory Board and the Advertising Federation of Australia. He is currently the Chair of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.


Russell is a regular panelist on ABC’s ‘The Gruen Transfer’ and guest panelist on the news-chat 

show “The Project” making him a very public voice on brand and advertising in Australia. He has published two books; When It's Right To Be Wrong and The Right Brain Workout.

Russel Howcroft

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