John Fernie
John Fernie is Professor of Retail Marketing and Head of the School of Management and Languages at Heriot-Watt University. 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, and received the award of Editor of the Year in 1997 in addition to Leading Editor awards in 1994, 1998 and 2000. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Product and Brand Management. He is an active member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport and the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK as well as holding 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. He is also a board member of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise and Edinburgh Business School.
