John Fernie is Professor of Retail Marketing at Heriot-Watt University. He has written and contributed to numerous textbooks and papers on retail management, especially in the field of retail logistics. He is editor of the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management and has received several Editor of the Year awards. He is an active member of professional organizations in the UK and US.

1. John Fernie
John Fernie is Professor of Retail Marketing at Heriot-Watt University. He was previously Professor of Retailing &
Logistics and also Director of the Institute for Retail Studies at the University of Stirling. He has written and contributed to
numerous textbooks and papers on retail management, especially in the field of retail logistics.
He is editor of the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, published by MCB University Press, and
received the prestigious award of Editor of the Year in 1997 in addition to Leading Editor awards in 1994 and 1998. He is an
active member of the Institute of Logistics and the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK as well as holding office in the
American Collegiate Retail Association.
jf91@st-andrews.ac.uk
MA, MBA, PhD
John Fernie is Professor of Retail Marketing at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. He has written and
contributed to numerous textbooks and papers on retail management, especially in the field of retail
logistics and the internationalisation of retail formats. He is editor of the International Journal of Retail
and Distribution Management, published by Emerald and is on the editorial boards of two other Emerald
journals, the Journal of Product and Brand Management and the International Journal of Logistics
Management. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Transport and an active member of the
Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK. He has also held office in the American Collegiate Retail
Association. In 2001 he became a member of the Logistics Directors Forum, a group of leading
professionals in supply chain management and logistics in the UK.
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Telephone:+ 44 (0) 1786 467384
I am Professor of Retail Studies at the Institute for Retail Studies, University of Stirling, Scotland,
UK. I was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, and completed my Ph.D at St. David's
University College, Lampeter.
I have been professor at Stirling since 1992. I have also been the Head of the Department of
Marketing, the Divisions of Marketing and Business and Organisation, the Director of the Institute
for Retail Studies and the Dean of the Faculty of Management. I am currently Deputy Head of the
Stirling Management School.
In 2000-2001 I was Visiting Professor at Florida State University and followed that up by being
Visiting Professor at the University of Tennessee in 2006.
I am Editor of the leading European retail journal ( The International Review of Retail, Distribution
and Consumer Research, published by Taylor and Francis), and on the editorial boards of several
leading marketing and business journals.
In 2002-2004, I was the only academic member of the UK Department of Trade and Industry's
Retail Strategy Group. I am Chair of the Scotland's Towns Group for the Centre for Scottish Public
Policy (2009 to date), one of two members of IDS Scotland Ltd, the company set up by Scottish
Government to oversee Scottish Business Improvement Districts (2009 to date) and an office
bearer in the American Collegiate Retailing Association.
In 2001, I was a founding member of the Academy of Marketing's Research Committee and was its
Chair from January 2006 to December 2009.

2. My research concentrates on aspects of the broad areas of structural and spatial change in
retailing. Since arriving at Stirling I have been involved in the generation of c£2m of research
funding. This research has been disseminated widely through a number of books, many reports
and over 125 academic and professional articles.