Prof. dr. Svetlana Khapova is Associate Dean of Business and Public Engagement and Full Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Leadership at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is a Programme Director of the (Executive) PhD programme in management and business studies at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Between 2009-2017, she served as Director of Doctoral Education and a founding Director of Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI) of the School of Business and Economics (SBE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
She is active in both academic and business domains.
Within the academic domain, she is a long-standing member of the Academy of Management and European Group for Organizational Studies. Between 2009-2013, Professor Khapova served as Division Chair and Program Chair of Careers Division of the Academy of Management for which she received Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service, from Careers division of the Academy of Management, Orlando, 2013, and Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service from the Academy of Management, Montreal, 2010. At the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), she regularly convens scientific research tracks on board dynamics. In 2021, she was one of the lead organizers of the 37th EGOS Colloquium in Amsterdam.
Within the business domain, Professor Khapova regularly gives keynote speeches, delivers corporate training programmes and advises organizations on leadership and management related topics. Her favorite programme is the (Executive) PhD, in which she has a privilege to work with executives on most pressing topics that concern contemporary “C-suite” executives. This programme is her most impactful project through which she supports executives in shaping the future of management practice.
