Agneta Marell (born 1964 in
Gothenburg
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,
Sweden
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) is
professor
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in
Business Administration
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and since 2010,
Deputy vice-chancellor for external relations and
innovation
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at
Umeå University
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in northern Sweden. Between 2004 and 2007, she was the
Dean
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of
Umeå School of Business
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, succeeding Anders Söderholm. In 2008–2011, she was a municipal manager for
Örnsköldsvik municipality
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. She received the assignment as vice rector for collaboration and innovation at
Umeå University
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. As such, she was also chairman of Uminova Holding, the business incubator Uminova Innovation AB and Uminova eXpression AB, which runs Sliperiet at the
Umeå Arts Campus
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.
In April 2016, she was appointed by the Swedish government to the board of
Jönköping University
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for the period May 1, 2016 to April 30, 2017.
Since 2017, Agneta Marell is president at
Jönköping University
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.
Research
Marell graduated in Business Administration 1991, and finished her doctoral thesis in 1998. Her
dissertation focused on
consumer behaviour
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and transport psychology. She has also been studying at
Columbia University
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in
New York
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, and
Kellogg School of Management
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at
Northwestern University
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in
Chicago
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Selected books (in English)
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See also
Agneta Marell, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Umeå University
References
1964 births
Living people
Swedish business theorists
Swedish educators
Academic staff of Umeå University
Umeå University alumni
Kellogg School of Management alumni
Columbia University alumni
Swedish women academics
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