Dr. Wim A. Van der Stede
Dean
Dr. Wim Van der Stede began his appointment as Dean at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, on July 1, 2026.
A seasoned academic leader with international experience, Dean Van der Stede joined Smith from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he served as Dean of Extended Education (2022-2025) and the CIMA Professor of Accounting and Financial Management since 2006. He also served as Head of the Department of Accounting at LSE for 10 years (2012-2022).
Dean Van der Stede’s extended education portfolio at LSE included all executive education, online degrees, global extension degrees, and summer school programs. Prior to LSE, he spent nine years as a faculty member in the Leventhal School of Accounting at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
Dean Van der Stede’s research focuses on management accounting and control with a particular emphasis on strategy implementation, organizational design, and performance measurement and incentive systems. He has published in several academic and practitioner journals in these areas and is the co-author of the leading textbook, Management Control Systems.
Actively involved in his field, he has served on the Board of Directors for the American Accounting Association and is currently the Consulting Editor of Management Accounting Research after a 10-year term as Editor-in-Chief. He also sits on the Finance Committee of the Royal Economics Society and chairs the AICPA-CIMA Research & Development Panel and is a member of their Thought Leadership and Business Ethics Committee.
Dean Van der Stede has won more than twenty awards for his research, teaching, and service, including the AAA Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award (three times) and the AAA Outstanding International Educator Award. He appears regularly at academic and practitioner conferences around the world as a keynote speaker and panellist.
Originally from Belgium, Dean Van der Stede earned his PhD in Economics, Master in Management, and Bachelor in Economics from Ghent University.
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