IMA is pleased to announce that Brigitte de Graaff, Ph.D., CMA, CSCA, an assistant professor of accounting at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has been named Chair-Elect for IMA’s fiscal 2025-2026 period (July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026).
De Graaff has broad experience in executive education, and she is the program director of the CMA program and the ESG management program at her university. De Graaff also provides CMA prep courses in other European countries and has provided editorial assistance for CMA review materials. Her research efforts focus on integrated thinking and ESG in relation to governance and performance management.
De Graaff earned her Ph.D. in accounting, as well as two master’s degrees in accounting and control and Dutch criminal law from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
An IMA member since 2012, de Graaff has been an active board member for IMA’s Amsterdam Chapter for 13 years, and she chaired IMA’s Sustainable Business Management Global Task Force for two years. De Graaff is the chair of IMA’s Volunteer Leadership Standing Board Committee and a member of the Governance Standing Board Committee. Previously, she chaired the Europe Regional Advisory Committee and was a member of the Global Markets Standing Board Committee and the Volunteer Leadership Standing Board Committee. De Graaff earned her CMA in 2014, and later obtained the CSCA certification in 2021, and IMA’s newest FMAA certification in 2024.