Ryuta Ishii is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Ritsumeikan University (Osaka, Japan). His research interests include international marketing, business-to-business relationships, and cross-cultural consumer behavior. His research has been published in Industrial Marketing Management, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Marketing Intelligence & Planning, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing & Logistics, and other journals.

He sits on the editorial board of International Marketing Review and holds regular ad-hoc reviewer roles for several journals. He regularly present his research at leading international conferences such as Global Marketing Conference (GMC), American Marketing Association (AMA) Global Marketing SIG Conference, and European Marketing Academy Conference (EMAC).