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Professor Jane Andrew holds the position of Professor and Head of the Discipline of Accounting, Governance and Regulation at the University of Sydney Business School. She earned a BCom (Hons) and PhD from the University of Wollongong and is a Fellow of CPA Australia (FCPA). An internationally recognised accounting scholar, her research examines how accounting shapes public policy, governance, and social accountability. Her interests include public policy, privatisation, neoliberalism, environmental accounting, social and environmental responsibility, carbon accounting, immigration detention, prison privatisation, and whistleblowing. She specialises in the relationship between accounting information and public policy, contributing to discussions at state and federal government levels. Andrew teaches financial accounting and sustainability-focused postgraduate courses and supervises several PhD students.

Jane Andrew joined the University of Sydney in 2010 after holding various academic roles at the University of Wollongong. She serves as Interim Head of School, School of Accounting, Governance and Regulation, and is co-editor-in-chief of Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Key publications include 'Corporate social and environmental disclosure in developing countries: Evidence from Bangladesh' (2006), 'Accounting for climate change and the self-regulation of carbon disclosures' (2011), 'Financialisation and the conceptual framework' (2014), 'The General Data Protection Regulation in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism' (2021), and 'Carbon tax: Challenging neoliberal solutions to climate change' (2010). In 2016, she released Prison Privatisation in Australia: The State of the Nation, the first comprehensive review of the costs, performance, and accountability of Australian private prisons. She has secured Australian Research Council funding as Chief Investigator for a project worth $279,214. In 2023, she was recognised as a Chapter Honouree by Beta Gamma Sigma at the University of Sydney Business School.