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Jane Andrew

Jane Andrew is a professor at the University of Sydney Business School. She is a researcher, writer, teacher and activist. As a student, Jane was awarded a First Class Honours degree in Commerce, with a minor in philosophy at the University of Wollongong. She wrote extensively for the University's student newspaper, the Tertangala and held senior positions at the local branch of the Wilderness Society. She met many of her contemporaries at that time, including the well known political economist, Damien Cahill; human rights lawyer Carol Berry; Illawarra Mercury chief of staff Ben Langford; and playwright and Guardian contributor Van Badham.

Jane's academic work engages directly with important matters of public policy related to environmental protection and human rights. She has published extensively in leading international academic journals, professional magazines, and newspapers and she is on the editorial board of three of the highest ranking business journals in the world. She is a regular keynote speaker at a variety of business, politics and policy conferences across the globe, and she holds a number of senior roles at research centres located in Paris, St Andrews and Sydney.

Specifically, Jane has researched climate change, prisons and immigration dentition and made contributions to academic and public debates around all of these issues. More recently, Jane's wok has focused on the role of government in the delivery of 'core' services and associated social policy.

Whilst Jane is trained as an accountant and holds status as a member of CPA Australia, she has consistently engaged these skills to expose the ways in which accounting information is politicised both within organisations and politics to achieve ideologically charged ends. Indeed, Jane's work exposes the role accounting information plays in the rationalisation of decision making and policy, despite the many estimates, judgements and predicsiont that underly the information. Her efforts to demystify accounting and to open it up to critique and challenge have helped engage debates around the rationale for priv

Jane is the daughter of two dedicated educators. Her mother, Pamela Andrew, is a philosopher who spent her career as a teacher who specialised in the education of profoundly disabled children. Her father, qualified both as a a lawyer and as an accountant, held senior academic positions at the University of Western Sydney where he was Dean of the Faculty of Management and at the University of Canberra where he was Dean of the Faculty of Business.

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