Huibrecht Margaretha van der Poll joined the University of South Africa (UNISA) in 2001. She obtained a MCom with distinction from the University of Pretoria in 2004 and obtained a doctorate in financial management sciences, also from the University of Pretoria in 2007. She is a Professor of Management
Accounting at Unisa’s Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL). She has supervised several Master’s and Doctoral students to completion. She has published papers in various national and international journals and presented papers at national, as well as international, conferences. She is a South African National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher, category C3 specialising in environmental management accounting, and qualitative research.