Professor Gabriel Donleavy
Professor - UNE Business School
Biography
Gabriel Donleavy has been a full-time full professor of Accounting in the UNE Business School since January 2015.
He writes:-
“I was born and educated in England, reading Economics at Cambridge, and serving articles with Price Waterhouse in the City of London. I held positions as chief accountant, finance director and partnership in a commodity brokerage in my commercial career. My academic career began in 1975 as a lecturer at the University of Greenwich in London, I have held academic positions at the top-rated National University of Singapore, been academic director of the University of Hong Kong Business School, and Head of the School of Commerce and Law at CQ University. I have held three Deanships: at Victoria University, CQ University and the University of Macau. For six years I ran the Anglo European Chiropractic College and set it on the path that led to to its designation as a public university college.
I obtained my PhD in Accounting from the University of Glasgow in 1991, have generated 47 refereed articles, six in A and A* journals, 7 books and around 200 other pieces over my 47 year career, including opinion pieces for China Daily and the UK Guardian. I have presented at quinquennial meetings of the World Congress of Accounting Education three times, the American Accounting Association twice and have edited and reviewed for established journals in accounting and business ethics. The journal I founded in 1991, the Asian Review of Accounting is steadily improving its rankings and I have served on its board over its entire lifetime.
My voluntary activities have included: -
Founding Committee Member, Abortion Law Reform Association, Birmingham UK 1964;
Founder Member, Committee off European Students’ Associations, Berlin 1966.
Secretary, Watford Branch, Association of Scientific Technical and Managerial Staffs 1970-74.
Chair, Young European Left, 1971;
Committee, Member Family Advice Information and Rescue, London, late 70s
Treasurer and committee member, Friends of the Earth, Hong Kong late 80s and early 90s
Treasurer, vice chair, chair, then trustee of Amnesty International Hong Kong. Late 80s and early 90s
Volunteer advisor and national trustee, Citizens Advice Bureau, UK, 2000-2004
Master Parramatta City Daylight Lodge, 2014
Political Advisory Committee NSW, National Seniors 2013-19
President UNE Branch, NTEU, Armidale, NSW 2018
Performance poet, Australian Poetry Hall of Fame from 2022
