Professor Cynthia Webster is Head of Department for Marketing at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She holds a PhD in in Social Science specialising in Social Network Analysis from the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her current research interests focus on: health networks, social media communication, branding, entrepreneurship, and consumer value. She has published articles in such journals as International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, European Journal of Marketing, Social Networks, Psychology & Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, and the Journal of Macromarketing. She is an Associate Editor of Journal of Consumer Behaviour, on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Advertising and is a regular reviewer for top marketing journals.

Over the past 20 years Cynthia has educated and trained researchers in social network analysis by conducting workshops in Australia and overseas. She has given lectures and consulted to industry, government agencies and universities, such as: Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary; WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University; SAX Institute; NSW Health Promotion Research and Evaluation Network; and Primary and Preventative Health, Western District Health Service, VIC, Building Healthy Communities RFA, La Trobe University, Collaboration for Evidence and Research in Public Health (CERIPH), Curtin University.