Deepa Chandrasekaran, PhD

Anheuser-Busch Foundation Professorship in Marketing

Professor and Chair, Marketing

Deepa Chandrasekaran is professor and chair of the Department of Marketing at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She joined the UT San Antonio faculty in 2014. Chandrasekaran serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and the Journal of Product Innovation Management, and as a member of the Journal of International Marketing Editorial Board.

Her areas of expertise include new product development and diffusion, innovation management and international marketing strategy. Chandrasekaran’s scholarly contributions include co-authoring book chapters and publishing numerous peer-reviewed articles in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Consumer Psychology and the International Journal of Research in Marketing.

Her excellence in teaching, research and service has been recognized through numerous awards, including the American Marketing Association Global Marketing SIG Excellence in Global Marketing Research Award, the Best Paper Award at the Product Development and Management Association Research Forum, the Carlos Alvarez College of Business Dean’s Distinguished Research Award, the Dean’s Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the Patrick J. Clynes Excellence in Service Endowed Faculty Award and the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award at UT San Antonio.

Chandrasekaran earned her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining UT San Antonio, Chandrasekaran spent time teaching at Lehigh University.