Peter Wolnizer
BEc Tas. MEc PhD FCA FCPA
Professor
P.Wolnizer@econ.usyd.edu.au
Room 203
H69 - The Economics and Business Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 3084
Fax: +61 2 9351 6639
Peter Wolnizer is Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business and a Professor of Accounting at The University of Sydney, Australia. Under his leadership, the Faculty has been accredited by both AACSB International and EQUIS, and chosen by the prestigious Community of European Management Schools and International Companies (CEMS) as their Australian member business school.
Prior to taking up his current position in 1999, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law (1991-99) at Deakin University, where he was appointed as the Foundation Professor of Accounting and Finance in 1989. He had previously held lecturing positions at the University of New South Wales and The University of Sydney, and a Readership at the University of Tasmania. He has been appointed to visiting professorial and research positions at the University of Utah, University of Kansas, University of Glasgow, Czech Management Center, University of Canterbury, and Korea University.
Professor Wolnizer is the first Australian Dean to be appointed to the Board of Directors of the US-based Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). Appointed in 2006 to serve a three year term, he has recently been reappointed for a further term of three years to 2011. He is a foundation member of the Council of the Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools, established in 2004.
Professor Wolnizer chaired the Education Advisory Committee of CPA Australia from 2000-09, and served on its Representative Council. He was appointed as the first Australian member of the International Accounting Education Standards Board by the International Federation of Accountants, serving for a three year term 2004-06.
He is the immediate past President of the Australian Business Deans Council; and has served as a member of the Councils of Moore College, The Scots College (Sydney), and Scotch College (Melbourne); the Research and Publications Committee of CEDA, Education Policy Committee of the International Association of Financial Executives Institutes (IAFEI), and Australia's Corporations and Securities Panel.
Professor Wolnizer holds a BEc from the University of Tasmania; and MEc and PhD degrees from The University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of both CPA Australia and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
His fields of expertise are financial accounting, auditing and corporate governance. He is the author of Auditing as Independent Authentication (Sydney University Press, 1987); editor of Walter P. Schuetze, Mark to Market Accounting: 'True North' in Financial Reporting (Routledge, London, 2004); and co-editor of four books published by Arno Press and Garland Publishing Inc., New York. His articles have been widely published in scholarly and professional journals internationally.