Gad Saad, Ph.D.

Dr. Gad Saad is Professor of Marketing, holder of the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption, and advisory fellow at the Center for Inquiry. He has held Visiting Associate Professorships at Cornell University (Johnson Graduate School of Management), Dartmouth College (Tuck School of Business), and the University of California-Irvine (Graduate School of Management). Dr. Saad was inducted into the Who's Who of Canadian Business in 2002, and was listed as one of the "hot" professors of Concordia University in both the 2001 and 2002 Maclean's reports on Canadian universities. He received the Faculty of Commerce's Distinguished Teaching Award in June 2000.

He has authored more than 65 scientific articles in numerous disciplines including in marketing, consumer behavior, advertising, psychology, medicine, economics, and bibliometrics. Professor Saad's trade book, The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature (Prometheus Books), was released in June 2011. His book titled The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption was published in 2007 by Lawrence Erlbaum. It is the first academic book to demonstrate the Darwinian roots of a wide range of consumption phenomena. His edited book, Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences, was also recently released (Springer, 2011), as was his special issue on the futures of evolutionary psychology published in Futures (Elsevier).

Dr. Saad's work has been covered in 200+ media outlets around the world including in television documentaries/interviews, radio interviews, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Some of the print outlets include The Economist, Chatelaine, Men's Health, The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Global and Mail (Canada), The Telegraph (UK), The Guardian (UK), Spiegel Online (Germany), The Scotsman (Scotland), De Pers (Netherlands), The Brisbane Times (Australia), and Gulf News (Middle East).