Thomas Boysen Anker

Prof Thomas Boysen Anker is Chair of Social Marketing at the University of Dundee School of Business. He is also board member and Vice Chair of the European Social Marketing Association.

His research and teaching focuses on how marketing can be used to influence consumers, citizens and other stakeholders to change behaviour to improve the welfare of people and the planet. He has recently published research on consumer-driven social change, racial bias in marketing, and worked with students to create anti-racism campaigns.

Thomas has also been Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the European Management Journal. He worked at the University of Glasgow for 11 years, holding various research, teaching and leadership positions, including Head of Department and Research Lead. He did his PhD in philosophy at the University of Copenhagen.

His teaching was recently nominated for outstanding contribution to cultural awareness in the classroom at the SAMEE Awards (Scottish Association of Minority Ethnic Educators).

When he is not working, Thomas is busy running in the Ochil Hills and co-coaching his daughter’s football team.