John Quelch

John Anthony Quelch CBE (born 8 August 1951) is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He holds a joint appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health as Professor in Health Policy and Management. He is also an associate in research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, fellow of the Harvard China Fund and member of the Harvard China Advisory Board.

Quelch was born in London, son of an RAF officer and a nurse . He began his education at a one-room schoolhouse in the Isle of Man, attended primary school in Australia, then returned to England, settling in Norwich and enrolling in Town Close School and later Norwich School. Quelch received his BA and MA from Exeter College, Oxford, where he was an Open Scholar in Modern History. At Oxford, he edited the student newspaper Cherwell. As a Thouron Scholar, he earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He then took an SM from the Harvard School of Public Health and a DBA from Harvard Business School.

Quelch's first academic post was as a visiting instructor at the University of Hawaii. He was next appointed assistant professor at the School of Business Administration (now the Ivey School) of the University of Western Ontario. In 1979, he returned to Harvard Business School as an assistant professor. He became a tenured professor in 1988 and was appointed the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and Co-Chair of the Marketing department in 1994.

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