the association's first director general was vice-admiral david clutterbuck who assumed this position in 1969. in 1983 bga began to accredit the growing number of mba programmes, while preserving its functions as a membership organization. bga was renamed association of mbas in 1987. until 2017, amba's president was the late sir paul judge, who helped establish cambridge judge business school at cambridge university in the early 1990s.