Advisory Board

The Advisory Board provides advice to the School of Accounting and Commercial Law and the Centre for Accounting, Governance, and Taxation Research.

Our roles

The role of the Advisory Board is to provide advice to both:

the Head of the School of Accounting and Commercial Law, to ensure that the School's programmes are relevant and of high quality, in accordance with the School's strategic plan
the Director of the Centre for Accounting, Governance, and Taxation Research, to ensure that the research process and the research programme of the Centre are relevant to its stakeholders, in accordance with the Centre's strategic plan.

Advisory Board membership

The Advisory Board comprises distinguished professionals from the private and public sectors and from academia. A full list of the Advisory Board members follows:

Mr Warren Allen, Consultant
Professor Jane Bryson, Dean, Wellington School of Business and Government
Mr Neil Cherry, Deputy Director-General Corporate Services, Ministry for Primary Industries
Professor Urs Daellenbach, Head of the School of Accounting and Commercial Law
Ms Raina Kereama, Manager of Policy and Planning, Wellington City Council
Ms Sandy Lau, Tax Partner, PwC
Mr Chong Lim, General Manager Professional Practices, Audit New Zealand
Ms April Mackenzie, Chief Executive, External Reporting Board
Mr Patrick McCalman, Tax Partner, Deloitte
Mr Jim McElwain, Executive Director, Institute of Finance Professionals NZ
Mr Jacco Moison, Head of Financial Reporting and Audit, Financial Markets Authority
Mr Stuart Mutch, Audit Partner, Ernst & Young
Mr John Shewan, Adjunct Professor, School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Wellington School of Business and Government
Mr Gavin Silva, Partner (Audit), KPMG
Emeritus Professor Don Trow, Victoria University of Wellington
Mr Ken Warren, Chief Accounting Advisor, Budget and Macroeconomic Branch, The Treasury