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30 July 2008

Professor Mike Ewing and Associate Professor Ken Grant

Professor Mike Ewing, head of the Monash Department of Marketing, has been elected a governor of the Academy which promotes marketing as an academic discipline.

Professor Ewing joins his Monash colleague Associate Professor Ken Grant as the only Australians ever appointed to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS), a prestigious international association for marketing academics.

Associate Professor Grant was a governor from 1999 to 2001 and was made a Distinguished Fellow of the AMS in 1998.

Professor Ewing said being elected a governor was a great personal honour and recognition of the strength of Monash University's marketing program.

"To have the only two Australian governors of this professional body here at Monash is a great achievement for the University," he said.

"We also have three staff members who have published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science so the AMS-Monash link is very well-established, and this awareness and recognition helps us in recruiting staff from the North American system."

In 1995, Monash hosted the Academy's seventh World Marketing Congress and in 2003 Professor Ewing co-chaired the 11th World Marketing Congress in Perth.

Monash has been approached to host the 16th World Marketing Congress in 2013.

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