Jane Andrew is Professor of Accounting and Head of the Discipline of Accounting, Governance and Regulation at the University of Sydney Business School, where she leads a group of more than 50 academics engaged in research that advances social and environmental impact. She completed her PhD in carbon accounting in 2000, graduating as one of only a handful of researchers in Australia working on climate-related organisational reporting at the time. This early focus on sustainability continues to shape her research into how accounting infrastructures influence what organisations value, disclose, and govern.
Jane currently leads an Australian Research Council Discovery project examining data breach disclosure practices, aimed at strengthening accountability and ensuring safe participation in digital life. As Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, she and her colleagues have advanced practices that support open knowledge, linguistic diversity, and inclusive scholarship. Together, they have published influential work on equity in the publishing ecosystem, the perils of artificial intelligence in research, and the effectiveness of regulatory interventions such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Her commitment to these principles also led her to found the Alternative Accounting Research Network, now a global community of more than 1,500 academics working at the intersection of accounting and pressing social and environmental challenges.
Beyond her professional life, Jane is an avid saltwater swimmer who has set herself the challenge of swimming in all 102 ocean rock pools in New South Wales. So far, she has swum in 43, and has another 10 in her sights this Christmas.