diff --git a/.changeset/silly-buckets-joke.md b/.changeset/silly-buckets-joke.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bd77f2ed05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/silly-buckets-joke.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend-module-msgraph': patch
+---
+
+Fixed bug in readProviderConfig as it wasn't reading the user.select field expected from the app-config.yaml configuration
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/config.test.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/config.test.ts
index 68c174665d..b02894dfd9 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/config.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/config.test.ts
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ describe('readMicrosoftGraphConfig', () => {
           authority: 'https://login.example.com/',
           userExpand: 'manager',
           userFilter: 'accountEnabled eq true',
+          userSelect: ['id', 'displayName', 'department'],
           groupExpand: 'member',
           groupSelect: ['id', 'displayName', 'description'],
           groupFilter: 'securityEnabled eq false',
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ describe('readMicrosoftGraphConfig', () => {
         authority: 'https://login.example.com/',
         userExpand: 'manager',
         userFilter: 'accountEnabled eq true',
+        userSelect: ['id', 'displayName', 'department'],
         groupExpand: 'member',
         groupSelect: ['id', 'displayName', 'description'],
         groupFilter: 'securityEnabled eq false',
@@ -167,6 +169,7 @@ describe('readProviderConfigs', () => {
               user: {
                 expand: 'manager',
                 filter: 'accountEnabled eq true',
+                select: ['id', 'displayName', 'department'],
               },
               group: {
                 expand: 'member',
@@ -196,6 +199,7 @@ describe('readProviderConfigs', () => {
         queryMode: 'advanced',
         userExpand: 'manager',
         userFilter: 'accountEnabled eq true',
+        userSelect: ['id', 'displayName', 'department'],
         groupExpand: 'member',
         groupSelect: ['id', 'displayName', 'description'],
         groupFilter: 'securityEnabled eq false',
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/config.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/config.ts
index 506951ff10..cf4ec646a2 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/config.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/config.ts
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ export function readProviderConfig(
 
   const userExpand = config.getOptionalString('user.expand');
   const userFilter = config.getOptionalString('user.filter');
+  const userSelect = config.getOptionalStringArray('user.select');
 
   const groupExpand = config.getOptionalString('group.expand');
   const groupFilter = config.getOptionalString('group.filter');
@@ -318,6 +319,7 @@ export function readProviderConfig(
     tenantId,
     userExpand,
     userFilter,
+    userSelect,
     groupExpand,
     groupFilter,
     groupSearch,