Speaker Bios

Garry D. Carnegie, FCPA is an Emeritus Professor of RMIT University. He commenced this role on 1 January 2018, having served in the roles of Head, School of Accounting and Professor of Accounting at RMIT from 2010 to 2017. Recently, he has been an Education Advisor at CPA Australia.

Professor Carnegie had been employed in Australian higher education institutions since 1985 and, prior to joining RMIT, he held full-time professorial posts at Deakin University, Melbourne University Private/The University of Melbourne and University of Ballarat (now Federation University Australia). Before joining academe, Professor Carnegie gained experience in the IT industry, public accounting, and in the financial services industry.

Professor Carnegie completed his PhD at Flinders University in 1994 on “The Structure and Usage of Pastoral Accounting Information in Pre-Federation Pastoral Industry Management in the Western District of Victoria (1836-1900)” under the principal supervision of Lee Parker. His published research appears in a diversity of fields, comprising accounting, accounting history, archaeology, economic history, companies and securities law, management history, museum management, and public administration.

His research is concerned with accounting, accountability and governance in both contemporary and historical contexts, while key teaching interests are in financial accounting and financial reporting and analysis at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

From 1995 to 2007, Professor Carnegie was the Foundation Editor of the New Series of Accounting History, which first appeared in May 1996 and, since 2008, he has been the journal’s Joint Editor (currently with Carolyn Fowler).

Professor Carnegie joined the Editorial Board of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal in 1993 and became an Associate Editor of the journal in 2013. He convened the 8th Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting conference held in Melbourne in 2016.