Jean-Charles Chebat, (January 13, 1945 - 21 May 2019) was a Canadian marketing researcher. He held the ECSC Research Chair of Retailing at HEC Montréal.
Jean-Charles Chebat was born January 13, 1945, in Algiers, Algeria. He read at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris in marketing from 1965 to 1968, earned an MBA in marketing from Laval University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Montréal in 1976. His dissertation was titled "Family decision making processes and social classes: a systemic approach".
Chebat was on the board of several top journals, such as Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He was the Associate Editor of Perceptual and Motor Skills and Psychological Reports.
Chebat was married to Claire Gélinas-Chebat, a professor of linguistics at the Université du Québec. The couple has three children: Daniel-Robert, Ph.D. in neuroscience, Associate Professor at Ariel University in Israel, Myriam, MA in social work and Elise, MS in marketing.
He has published about 150 refereed journal articles (Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, Environment & Behavior, Journal of Social Psychology), as many conference papers, and ten book chapters.