Svetlana Khapova

Prof. dr. Svetlana Khapova is a full-professor of Organisational Behaviour at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is Head of Department - Management & Organisation, and Head of Section - HRM/OB. Between 2009-2017, she served as a founding Director of Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI). ABRI caters for doctoral education in management and organisation studies at VU. She also served as Director of Doctoral Education between 2009-2015. Since 2013, she is Director of the (Executive) part-time PhD programme in Business Studies.

Prof. dr. Svetlana Khapova is a founding Director of the VU Center for Boards and Executive Leadership Development.

Professor Khapova held leadership positions at the Academy of Management between 2009-2013, serving as a Division Chair and Program Chair of Careers Division. She also organized and chaired many international conferences on the topic of careers, and co-convened the careers sub-track of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) in Amsterdam 2008, Barcelona 2009, and Lisbon 2010. Between 2008-2018, she was a visiting professor at ESMT – European School of Management and Technology.

She is on the editorial boards of British Journal of Management and The International Journal of Human Resource Management. She also served on the board of the Dutch Foundation of Management Development (NFMD).