33 Facts About John Quelch

John Anthony Quelch CBE was born on August 8,1951 and is a British-American academic and professor.

John Quelch is the former dean of the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida from 2017 to 2022.

John Quelch served as the University of Miami's Leonard M Miller university chair professor, its vice provost for executive education, the Charles Edward Wilson professor of business administration emeritus at Harvard Business School, and dean emeritus of the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai.

John Quelch was born in London, son of a Royal Air Force officer and a nurse.

John Quelch began his education at a one-room schoolhouse in the Isle of Man, attended primary school in Australia, then returned to England, settling in Norwich and enrolling in Town Close School and later Norwich School.

John Quelch received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Exeter College, Oxford, where he was an open scholar in modern history.

John Quelch then received a Master of Science degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

John Quelch was next appointed assistant professor at the School of Business Administration, now the Ivey Business School, at the University of Western Ontario.

John Quelch became a tenured professor at Harvard Business School in 1988.

In 1998, John Quelch was appointed dean with vice chancellor status of London Business School.

John Quelch returned to Harvard Business School in 2001 as Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for international development, responsible for overseeing the establishment of a global network of research centers.

John Quelch served as a director of the Harvard Business School Publishing Company.

In 2009, John Quelch was on sabbatical leave as the La Caixa Visiting Professor of International Management and chairman of the academic advisory council at the China Europe International Business School, a Shanghai-based school co-founded by the Chinese Communist Party and European Commission.

From 2011 and 2013, John Quelch served as dean, vice president, and Distinguished Professor of International Management at the Shanghai-based institution.

In 2017, John Quelch was appointed dean of the University of Miami School of Business Administration, renamed in 2019 as the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School.

John Quelch serves as the Leonard M Miller University Chair Professor and vice provost for executive education at the University of Miami.

In December 2023, John Quelch was appointed executive vice chancellor at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China.

John Quelch later focused on how to improve the design and productivity of temporary price promotions, leading to his 1989 book, Sales Promotion Management, published by Prentice Hall.

Since 2013, John Quelch has focused on patient centricity and consumer empowerment in healthcare and written several books on the topic, including Consumers, Corporations and Public Health, Building A Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business, Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace, and Choice Matters How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions.

John Quelch's healthcare practitioner-focused articles embrace eighteen contributions in the Harvard Business Review.

John Quelch is among the top 40 Case authors since the list began in 2016.

John Quelch is featured on the list of The Case Centre's all-time top authors list, released in 2014.

In 2018, John Quelch led an initiative to offer every student at the University of Miami free access to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

In recognition of his thought leadership, Quelch received the William L Wilkie "Marketing for a Better World" award from the American Marketing Association foundation in 2020.

John Quelch submitted his resignation to Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick in January 2011.

John Quelch served from 2003 to 2013 as honorary consul general of the Kingdom of Morocco for the New England region.

John Quelch has governance experience as a non-executive director of public companies in the United States and the United Kingdom.

John Quelch has served as a director of Alere, Aramark, easyJet plc, Pentland Group plc, Pepsi Bottling Group, and Reebok.

John Quelch has served as honorary chairman of the British American Business Council of New England, as a trustee of the London-based STARS foundation and as a board member of Americans for Oxford, Accion International, and the national council of Better Business Bureaus.

In 2006, John Quelch was named by The Sunday Times as one of the "Top 25 Britons who call the shots in America".

John Quelch received the annual leadership award from the British American Business Council of New England in 2008 and from the World Affairs Council of Boston in 2010.

John Quelch was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his promotion of British business interests and prosperity.

John Quelch was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2020.