Peter Wolnizer OAM
BEc UTAS, MEc PhD Sydney, FCA FCPA
Professor Emeritus
peter.wolnizer@sydney.edu.au
The University of Sydney Business School
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
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Peter Wolnizer is a Professor Emeritus of The University of Sydney where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business for twelve years, from 1999-2010, and as a Professor of Accounting until his retirement at the end of 2011. Under his leadership, the Faculty was accredited twice by both AACSB International and EQUIS, and chosen by the prestigious Global Alliance in Management Education CEMS as their Australian member business school.
Professor Wolnizer has been appointed as Chair of the International Accounting Education Standards Board for a three-year term commencing 1 January 2012. He had previously been appointed as the first Australian member of the IAESB, serving from 2004-06.
Prior to returning to The University of Sydney as Dean, 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. Before embarking on an academic career, Professor Wolnizer worked for BP Australia Ltd and Price Waterhouse (now PwC).
Professor Wolnizer is the first Australian Dean to be appointed to the Board of Directors of the US-based AACSB International, serving for two consecutive three-year terms from 2006-2011. He was a founding member of the Council of the Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools from 2004-11, and is a former President of the Australian Business Deans Council. Professor Wolnizer chaired the Education Committee of CPA Australia from 2000-09, and served on its Representative Council. In 2011, he was engaged by CPA Australia as their International Higher Education Advisor.
Other service contributions by Professor Wolnizer have included membership of the Councils of Moore College, The Scots College (Sydney), and Scotch College (Melbourne); and Australia's Corporations and Securities Panel.
For his service to higher education in business and economics as an academic and administrator, Professor Wolnizer was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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 and auditing. 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); co-editor with Gary Previts and Peter Walton of the four-volume work A Global History of Accounting, Financial Reporting and Public Policy (Emerald, UK, 2010-12); co-editor with Tom Lee of The Quest for a Science of Accounting: An Anthology of the Research of Robert R. Sterling (Garland, New York, 1997); and co-editor of three other books published by Arno Press and Garland, New York. His articles have been widely published in scholarly and professional journals internationally.