Jennifer Ames Stuart

Jen Ames Stuart provides strategic leadership and oversight for internal communications, media relations, marketing and
branding, creative services, public relations, media relations, broadcast/digital communications, executive communications and crisis communications.

She became associate vice chancellor and chief communications officier for University Communications in December 2021. She is also a clinical professor of marketing in the Belk College of Business. Stuart joined UNC Charlotte in 2013 as an assistant professor of marketing in the Belk College of Business. She has taught courses in the DBA, MBA and undergraduate business programs. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Marketing Letters. Her paper, Valuing Customers, was recognized with both the William O’Dell and the Paul E. Green awards, annual awards given to research that has made the most significant, long-term contribution to marketing theory, methodology, and/or practice. More recently, she served as associate dean for graduate and executive programs for the Belk College of Business.

Stuart also has extensive industry experience previously holding senior leadership roles in brand management, strategy and innovation, and general management with organizations including Bayer, Novartis and Hershey. She serves on the board of advisors for a global manufacturing
company and a local nonprofit. Stuart earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Columbia University and master’s and
undergraduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.