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Dr. Jeffrey Wade Overby (born May 28, 1966) is the Director of the Center for International Business, Associate Professor of Marketing, and holds the Edward C. and Helen J.Kennedy Chair of Excellence at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

His responsibilities include teaching marketing and international business at the undergraduate and graduate levels, expanding Belmont’s International Business major, establishing study abroad relationships with foreign universities, and promoting internationalization within the College of Business Administration and the greater Nashville community. He also regularly teaches in international study programs, including recent study abroad trips to Spain, France, United Arab Emirates, Poland, South Korea, South Africa and Botswana.

Dr. Overby obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Millsaps College, and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in French from Mississippi State University. He has also studied at Odense University in Denmark, Birkbeck College in England, Clermont-Ferrand, France, and the Najafi Global Mindset Institute at the Thunderbird School of Global Management where he became a GMI Certified Facilitator.

Dr. Overby regularly consults with businesses and organizations specifically in the areas of customer value analysis, international branding, and multicultural marketing. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the International Business Council of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Sister Cities of Nashville, Round Table, Inc., and the Tennessee World Affairs Council. Dr. Overby also serves on the Advisory Board of the Turkish American Chamber of Commerce and the Academy of International Business at Hillsboro High School. Dr. Overby is a past board member of the Danish American Chamber of Commerce, the German American Chamber of Commerce, the Tennessee Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the City of Tallahassee International Affairs Council, Jackson Sister Cities, the Southern Regional Chapter of Italy-America Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta, and the Capital Optimist Club in Jackson, Mississippi.

Dr. Overby’s early career included six years as European Project Manager and Market Research Analyst for Entergy Corporation, four years as a graduate assistant in the College of Business at the University of Tennessee, and five years at Assistant Professor of Marketing and International Business at Florida State University. While at Entergy Corporation, he recruited and managed European direct investment projects targeted at the Middle South region of the United States, and he advised small and medium-sized business with their international marketing strategies. While at Florida State University, he was part of the core faculty in the International Business program and he was the faculty advisor to the International Business Association. He also taught each summer in London, England and Valencia, Spain.

Dr. Overby’s academic research interests are in the areas of international marketing, international business strategy, cross-cultural consumer behavior, and the ethics of globalization. He has published in a number of leading journals and magazines, including Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, The CASE Journal, International Marketing Review, Industrial Marketing Management, The Service Industries Journal, Journal of Consumer Marketing, The Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, International Journal of Service Industry Management, International Journal of Management, and Competitive Edge. He has also served as a book reviewer for Prentice Hall, Wiley & Sons, and South-Western Cengage.