Mabillard, Vincent: Place Branding and Marketing from a Policy Perspective

Vincent Mabillard is Professor of Public Management and Communication at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management of the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He holds a PhD from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests focus on government transparency and accountability, social media communication, and place branding and marketing.Martial Pasquier is Professor of Public Management and Communication at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the author of the book Marketing Management and Communications in the Public Sector. His research interests relate to transparency, public sector communication, and place branding and marketing.Renaud Vuignier works for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. He contributed to this book purely in his private capacity, when he was a research fellow at the University of Lausanne. Opinions expressed here shall therefore not be regarded as official positions but as personal points of view.