DIRECTORS & STAFF
The People behind the Organization

Brenda Childers is Managing Director of Amsterdam Institute of Finance. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the Richard T. Farmer School of Business of Miami University and obtained her MBA with distinction in Finance and International Business from NYU's Stern School of Business.  Mrs. Childers has studied at London Business School and earned a graduate degree in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam.

Her career started with Procter & Gamble and she has worked for Morgan Stanley both in New York and London. Brenda Childers has conducted business extensively throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Theo Vermaelen
Program Director

Theo Vermaelen is the Schroders Chaired Professor of International Finance and Asset Management at INSEAD, where he teaches in MBA, PhD and Executive Programs. He is a graduate from the Department of Applied Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven (Commercial Engineer) and obtained an MBA and PhD in Finance from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.

Dr. Vermaelen has taught at the University of British Columbia, the Catholic University of Leuven, London Business School, UCLA, the University of Chicago, and Maastricht University. He has published several articles on corporate finance and investments in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. He is co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance, associate editor of the European Financial Review, and advisory editor of Teaching and Case Abstracts, and is also a consultant to various corporations and government agencies.

He is AIF Program Director to the Executive Master of Science in Risk Management, a program offered in partnership with NYU Stern School of Business and Amsterdam Institute of Finance.

Christian Wolff is Director of the Luxembourg School of Finance and Professor of Finance at the University of Luxembourg, as well as a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. He holds economics degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and received his MBA and PhD degrees in International Finance from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. Professor Wolff was previously employed at London Business School and Maastricht University and held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago and The National University of Singapore, and INSEAD.

Professor Wolff has published in leading academic journals. He has taught extensively in various MBA and executive programs. Professor Wolff has served as consultant to many financial institutions and corporations. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Optimix Investment Funds N.V. in Amsterdam and a Nonexecutive Director at Dominion Investment Analytics S.A. in Lugano, Switzerland.

Annelies Steinmeier
Director - Finance, HR & Operations