Ben Lowe is Professor of Marketing at Kent Business School, University of Kent. He was previously Head of the Marketing Group for a number of years and has also taken on other leadership roles within the School (e.g., Interim Director of Education, Programme Director for the MSc in Marketing and the MSc in Management, Academic Lead for the School�s Periodic Programme Review). Currently he is on the editorial board of several journals and is an Associate Editor at the European Journal of Marketing. He has published extensively in the field of consumer behaviour, and his research made contributions to our understanding of pricing, innovation adoption, social marketing, marketing communications and interactive marketing. Qualifications: PhD (Griffith), BBus (Monash), BCom (Sydney), PGCHE (Kent).