Rate My Professor Corinne Cortese

Professor Corinne Cortese is Professor of Accounting and Deputy Dean-Graduate Research in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Wollongong. She has worked as a researcher and educator for over two decades, commencing her academic career at Macquarie University where she served as Associate Lecturer from 2001 to 2004. She earned her PhD from the University of Wollongong in 2006. Her research focuses on accounting regulation, with particular interests in the extractive industries, international accounting standards, financial reporting, and the role of power and politics in the international accounting standard-setting process.

Professor Cortese holds the position of Professor of Accounting at the University of Wollongong. Her work examines fields at the intersection of accounting, policy, and transparency, including regulatory structures and their formation, operation, and influence. She has contributed to public inquiries on university governance and consultancy spending in the higher education sector.