VALARIE ZEITHAML is Distinguished Professor of Marketing Em�rita at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has devoted her career to researching and teaching service quality and services management. She is the co-author of Delivering Quality Service: Balancing Customer Perceptions and Expectations, now in its 20th printing, and Driving Customer Equity: How Customer Lifetime Value Is Reshaping Corporate Strategy. In 2008, Dr. Zeithaml won the Paul D. Converse Award from the American Marketing Association. The award acknowledges enduring contributions to marketing through one or more journal articles, books, or a body of work. In 2009, she received the American Marketing Association/Irwin/McGraw Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award for lifetime leadership in marketing education and extensive contributions to the field of marketing. She also won the 2012 Bullard Research Impact Award in recognition of the broad impact of research on the field, industry, and society, and was appointed an American Marketing Association Lifetime Fellow in 2015. The 2014 List of Thomson Reuters included her in the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds." reflecting citation data that identified those scholars who published the highest impact work.
