Pam Scholder Ellen, associate professor of marketing at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University has been elected president of the American Marketing Association's Academic Division (AMA). Ellen, a member of the Robinson faculty since 1987, joins the AMA executive committee as president-elect. Her term as president will be the 2007-08 academic year.
The American Marketing Association is one of the largest professional associations for marketers with 38,000 members worldwide spanning all marketing disciplines. As President, Ellen will take responsibility for all AMA academic conferences, programs and services.
Ellen was elected to the twelve-member AMA Academic Council in 2004 and named the inaugural editor of the MarketingAcademics@AMA newsletter. She is a long-term board member of AMA's Marketing & Society Special Interest Group and of the planning board of the Marketing & Public Policy Conference. She currently serves on six editorial review boards and is an associate faculty of the Nonprofit Studies program in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State.
She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina ('87) and her B.A. in Journalism/Mass Communications from Auburn University ('75).
