Stephen Brown University of Ulster, UK

Stephen Brown is Professor of Marketing Research at Ulster University, UK. He has written numerous books including Fail Better, Free Gift Inside and Wizard: Harry Potter’s Brand Magic, the last of which was translated into twelve languages. Once described as ‘the Antichrist of marketing’, his articles have appeared in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research and theHarvard Business Review, among many oth­ers. A life-long jogger, who believes Nike is second to none, he writes comic novels in his spare time.