Dr. Debra Ringold
Immediate Past Chairperson
Professor of Marketing - Willamette University

Debra J. Ringold is Professor of Marketing at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University. She teaches courses in public, nonprofit, and private sector marketing, marketing research, marketing communications, and marketing and public policy. Debra was honored as the Administrator of the Year at Willamette University in 2005. Her teaching awards include the United Methodist Award for Exemplary Teaching and Community Service (in 2002) and the Jerry E. Hudson Distinguished Teaching Award (in 1997).

Her research has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Consumer Policy, Advances in Public Policy and Marketing, Psychology and Marketing, American Behavioral Scientist, and numerous conference proceedings including Advances in Consumer Research. Debra is the 2004 recipient of the Thomas C. Kinnear/Journal of Public Policy and Marketing Award for outstanding research.

Debra has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing since 1991 and begins a three year term as its Associate Editor in 2006. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the 38,000 member American Marketing Association in 2000. She begins her term as Chairperson of the AMA Board in 2006.

Her recent clients include the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Anheuser-Busch Companies, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Hewlett Packard.