Ned Roberto | |
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![]() Roberto at AIM | |
Nationality | Filipino |
Alma mater | De La Salle University Kellogg School of Management |
Occupation | Professor |
Known for | Marketing |
Eduardo L. Roberto or Ned Roberto is a Filipino professor who is considered Asia's foremost authority in marketing.[1] He was the professor of international marketing at the Asian Institute of Management located in Metro Manila in the Philippines.[2] He has written several marketing-related books and is currently a part of the editorial board of the International Journal of Research in Marketing. His areas of interest for teaching and research include marketing research, social marketing, and consumer behavior. He has also taught at the Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management Chicago Campus and at the Euro-Asia Centre of INSEAD Macau.[3]
Roberto received his Doctor of Philosophy in Marketing and a Master in Business Administration degree from The Kellogg Management School of Northwestern University (1973.) [3]
He also sits on the board of directors of several corporations.[4]
Roberto has done extensive consultancy work region-wide for both national and transnational corporations and multilateral agencies.[5]
Roberto has been a consultant for marketing planning, product management and marketing research to practically all of the leading multinational corporations in the consumer goods, pharmaceutical, household products, beverage, cosmetics, processed food, banking, advertising, and airline industries.[3][5]
Roberto has been consulted by several major multinational corporations in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan.[4]
Roberto has also been involved in social marketing, planning & research, and consulting for international organizations such as the World Bank, the UN Fund for Population Activities, the International Labour Organization, the UN Development Programme, the Asian Development Bank, the Ford Foundation, the International Development Research Centre, the Population Council, and the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East.[4]
He has published several articles on marketing and social marketing in national and international journals, newspapers and has contributed chapters in major books of readings in the field of marketing, such as “Alleviating Poverty: A Macro/Micro Marketing Perspective,” Journal of Macromarketing, December 2006, pp. 233–39 (co-authored with Philip Kotler and Tony Leisner.) [10]