BGA’s assessors belong to either the BGA Accreditation Advisory Board (BAAB), or the Faculty of Assessors. The BGA Accreditation Board is responsible for evaluating and assessing business schools between various stages of the accreditation process. It’s also responsible for approving membership, validation, and accreditation applications.
The Faculty of Assessors is a pool of current and former deans and directors from leading business schools, who devote part of their time towards undertaking peer-review assessments at business schools.
BGA Accreditation Board Member
Dean of Durham University Business School.
Professor Dixon has been a member of staff of Durham University Business School since 1992. He was Dean from 2008 to 2016, and prior to that held various administrative roles including Chair of the Board of Studies and Director of the MBA Programme.
In 1998 he was promoted to a Chair of Management Accounting. His research interests are broad and include investigations of the contribution of venture capitalists and the impact of regulation on business. He is a highly regarded speaker and has held visiting professorships in Malaysia, Hong Kong, France and Finland.
Professor Dixon is the author of a number of books and articles in the broad field of Management, and has published extensively in learned journals on the broad subject of financial management and performance appraisal. His current research includes corporate finance, governance and control and related accounting issues.
BGA Accreditation Board Member
Dean of Almaty Management University.
Gulnara Kurenkeyeva has 25 years of experience in higher education. In 2000, she defended candidate thesis in economics, in 2007 years she completed her doctorate studies at the chair of “World Economics” in Al Farabi Kazakh National University. In the period of 2002-2007 years, she was responsible for research projects on government contracts and grants, “System of Kazakhstan’s national interests and national security priorities in the context of globalization” (2002-2005), “Evaluation of the impacts of accession to the WTO” (2006-2007) and others.
Since 2006, Gulnara has been working in business education. She has been a director of MBA, DBA in Almaty Management University (formerly IAB); currently she is Dean of Graduate School of Business of Alma University. She was a member of working group for the development of MES requirements and state standards for doctoral and masters programs PhD, MBA, DBA in 2006-2008, 2012-2014. Also, she was a member of the National Certification of HEIs of Kazakhstan.
Gulnara held a research fellowships at Moscow State University, and was the winner of the grant of the President of Kazakhstan for young scientists (November-December 2003) and the winner of the scholarship “Bolashak” (Internship Program “Excellence in Innovative Business Education”, February- November 2013). She has published scientific articles, tutorials and collective monographs.
Board Member and Chair of the IAAB
Andrew Lock was Dean of the Business School at the University of Leeds from 2000 to 2008 and is currently a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University in China in the Global Entrepreneurship Center. He was previously Chairman of the Association of Business Schools in the UK and Dean and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Manchester Metropolitan University. Earlier in his career, he also taught in Canada and France. His Masters and PhD are from London Business School.
He has undertaken AMBA accreditations since 1998. Through his work with AMBA and other bodies and national governments, he has reviewed business schools and MBA programmes across six continents
He was a member of the panel which advised the British government in 1992 on the granting of research degree awarding powers to institutions seeking university status in that year. Andrew is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and the Association of Business Schools, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Institute of Direct Marketing, and the Royal Society of Arts, a chartered member of the British Computer Society and a Freeman of the City of London. He was a member of the Steering Group of the Leeds Financial Services Initiative and was also involved in promoting UK financial services and financial education overseas. His work has been published, inter alia, in the Journal of Marketing Management, the European Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Advertising Research, the Journal of the OR Society, and Management Learning.
BGA Accreditation Board Member
Former Founding Co-Dean and Executive Director of KEDGE Business School.
Dr Philip McLaughlin is the former Founding Co-Dean and Executive Director of the KEDGE Business School.
He holds a BA (Hons) in Hispanic Studies and a PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of Sheffield (UK).
Philip McLaughlin began his career in 1980 as Assistant Lecturer in Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Reims. In 1984 he joined the University of Auckland as Lecturer in Spanish Literature, before returning to France in 1987 where he served, at Reims Management School, as Director of the International Bachelor Programme and the Generalist and Specialist Master’s Programmes. He also served as Director of Development and Research.
In 2001 he moved to Toulouse Business School where he was appointed Vice-Dean and Executive Director (with responsibility for the Generalist Master Programme, Development and International Relations.
In 2005 he was appointed member of the Executive Committee of the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce and Dean and Executive Director of BEM Management School. He co-piloted the merger between Euromed Business School (Marseille) and BEM and the creation of KEDGE Business School until leaving in 2015.
His management-related teaching activities have included Social Psychology; Psychoanalysis and Management; Intercultural Management; Change Management and Business Ethics.
He has a long experience in international management development and accreditation. He was a member of the Pilot Group that established the European Credit Transfer Scheme (ECTS). He was also a member of the EQUIS Eligibility Committee for 7 years and the Initial Accreditation Committee of AACSB for 3 years. He is currently member of the International Academic Advisory Board of AMBA and of the BGA Accreditation Board.
BGA Accreditation Board Member
Former Pro-Vice Chancellor of Aston University.
Dr Mark Oakley is the former Pro-Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) at Aston University, and is currently an Academic Consultant for the Association of MBAs.
He holds an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering, a PhD in Design Management and is a Chartered Engineer. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Following a career in industry, Dr Oakley began his academic career at Aston University in 1980, progressing to become Director of MBA and MSc Programmes in the Aston Business School, and subsequently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) in 2005. In 2007 he was appointed Executive Director of the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business at the University of the West Indies. He assumed his current role with AMBA in 2010.
BGA Accreditation Board Member
Latin America Advisor to AMBA & BGA
Carlos is one of the Association’s International Advisors and a member of the International
Accreditation Advisory Board (IAAB) at AMBA & BGA. He joined in 1999 and his main responsibilities are related to the international accreditation and the development of the Association’s activities in
Latin America and the Caribbean.
Before joining AMBA & BGA, Carlos held academic and administrative positions at Business Schools in France, Germany and Belgium and undertook several educational projects in the UK. In addition, he accomplished assignments related to postgraduate management education in Japan, Morocco and Argentina. For many years, he took part in projects of the European Union for the development of business education in the Caribbean.
Carlos holds an MBA and a Masters in International Business (MIB) from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et
BGA Accreditation Board Member
Dean of Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya
Prof Dr Che Ruhana Binti Isa is currently Dean & Professor of Accountancy in the Faculty of Business and Accountancy at the University of Malaya.
Prof Ruhana holds a BSBA in Accounting from Oklahoma State University, an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD from the Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Prof Ruhana began her academic career at the University of Malaya in 2005 as Coordinator of the Bachelor of Accounting Programme, progressing to become Head of the Accounting Department in 2006. In 2007 she was concurrently appointed Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Business and Accountancy, before serving an initial term as Dean of the Faculty between 2011 and 2014. She assumed her second term as Dean in 2015 and is also currently a member of AMBA’s International Accreditation Advisory Board (IAAB).
BGA Accreditation Board Member
Dean of EADA Business School.
Steef van de Velde
Former Dean and Professor of Operations Management and Technology, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM)
Steef van de Velde is a former Dean of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) Netherlands, where he was also a Professor of Operations Management and Technology. He is a board member at AMBA & BGA.
Steef holds an MSc in econometrics from the Erasmus School of Economics and a PhD in mathematics and computer science from Eindhoven University of Technology.
BGA Accreditation Board Member
Executive Dean at Zhejiang University
Professor Wang is one of the Association’s International Advisors and a member of the International
Accreditation Advisory Board (IAAB) at AMBA & BGA.
Wang Zhongming is professor of human resource management, organizational behavior and entrepreneurship at School of Management, Zhejiang University, China. He received his degrees from University of Gothenburg, Sweden (1985) and Hangzhou University (1987), a joint program with University of Gothenburg.
He is the Executive Dean of School of Management and both the Director of Center for Human Resources and Strategic Development and the Director of Global Entrepreneurship Research Center, Zhejiang University. He is also the director of the Institute of Social Entrepreneurship at the GERC of Zhejiang University.
BGA Accreditation Board Member
Chair of Business Administration, Accounting & Auditing at University of Mannheim.
Jens Wüstemann joined the University of Mannheim in 2000 and holds the chair of Business Administration and Auditing. He earned his PhD from the Goethe University, Frankfurt / Main and visited Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Stern School, New York University and ESSEC Business School in Paris.
His research focuses on accounting theory, national and international accounting, business valuation, as well as corporate governance and auditing, which are examined using both normative and empirical methods.
Since 2010 Professor Wüstemann has acted as President of the Mannheim Business School, the umbrella organization for management education at the University of Mannheim.
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