Ra’id Q Shomali is a Marketing academic and practitioner. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Bethlehem University (Palestine), an M.B.A. with a double concentration in M.I.S. and e-Business from Lewis University (U.S.A.), a Training of Trainers and Consultants Diploma from Maastricht School of Management (Netherlands), and a Doctor of Business Administration with an emphasis on Marketing from Southern Illinois University (U.S.A.), where he was awarded the prestigious Fulbright scholarship award. As an academic, he taught undergraduate and graduate marketing and
management courses at Bethlehem University (Palestine), Southern Illinois University (U.S.A.), and Indiana State University (U.S.A). As a practitioner, his consulting career focuses on impact consulting and customized training interventions targeting specific marketing and management organizational needs in all sectors of the economy (for-profit, nonprofit, and government organizations). Currently, Ra’id serves on the faculty of the Graduate School at the Arab American University in the area of Administrative and Financial sciences. His research focuses on the marketplace interactions of migrant consumers, Internet and social media marketing, nonprofit/social marketing, social entrepreneurship, and donor relationship management.
