Professor John Branch currently teaches a variety of marketing and international business courses at the undergraduate, M.B.A., and executive levels at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (U.S.A.). He also serves as Director of Educational Outreach at the University's William Davidson Institute, which focuses on emerging and transitional economies; he is responsible for the development and dissemination of pedagogical materials. He also holds an affiliated research fellowship with the University's Center for Russian and East European Studies.

Prior to joining Ross, Professor Branch was on the faculty of the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in Saint Louis (U.S.A.) for five years. He began his academic career in 1993 as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes in France. Since then, he has also served as an adjunct or visiting professor at more than 40 business schools throughout world, including the Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), ESAN (Peru), and the Sasin Graduate Institute of Administration (Thailand). He was also a visiting scholar at Queen Elizabeth House of the University of Oxford (England) and at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University (U.S.A.).

Professor Branch has been involved in a variety of European Union and other government-funded development projects, most notably in the republics of the former U.S.S.R., including Kyrghyzstan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, and in those of Eastern and Central Europe. He has also participated in management training programmes in, and consulted to, numerous international organisations, including British American Tobacco, Anheuser-Busch, British Telecom, Cargill, Coca-Cola, Brady, Michelin, Ericsson, and Nestlé.

Professor Branch is originally from Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science in electronics from the University of Western Ontario (Canada), a Master of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick (Canada), a Master of Arts in education from Washington University in Saint Louis (U.S.A.), and a Doctor of Philosophy in marketing from the University of Cambridge (England). Recently, he has also begun a higher doctoral degree (Dr. Merc.) at the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) which focuses on higher-education administration.