Bodo Schlegelmilch – who has been Chair of the Association of MBAs and Business Graduates Association since 2018, is due to relinquish the role at the end of September 2023 and Wendy Loretto, Dean of the University of Edinburgh Business School has been elected to succeed him.
Loretto, who was voted unanimously by the Trustees to become the new Chair at AMBA & BGA’s International Management Board Meeting on Friday 10th February, is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Dean at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She will officially commence the role of chair of AMBA & BGA on October 1st 2023.
Before becoming dean in 2017, Loretto has previously held several leadership roles at the University of Edinburgh Business School, including Director of Research and Director of Undergraduate Programmes. Her main research field is age and employment, with a particular focus on changes in employees’ and employers’ attitudes and practices in extending working lives. She is especially interested in the ways in which gender, age and health interact to affect work and retirement experiences amongst older men and women across Europe. Her work has received funding from research councils, industry partners, government and EU and is published widely in leading academic journals.
She is on the Boards of abrdn Financial Fairness Trust and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, and was a member of the UKRI Equality, Diversity and Inclusion external Advisory Group (2018-22).