Rate My Professor Jeanne Nel

Jeanne Nel is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Education in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash Business School, Monash University. A comparative governance and business law scholar, she holds an LLM in human rights law, a PhD in Law awarded on 29 April 2024 focused on regulating the conduct of volunteer directors in the Australian charity sector to align mission and accountability, a Postgraduate LLB, a Graduate Certificate in Money Laundering Control, and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. An Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, Nel previously served as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University from 2001 to 2007. She has taught Company Law, Corporate Governance, and Business Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at universities in South Africa and Australia.

Nel's research focuses on financial crime and governance regulation, including corporate governance, not-for-profit regulation, gender equality, social and financial inclusion, director disqualifications, volunteer directors' duties in charitable companies, and risk-based regulation of the NPO and charity sectors within the FATF framework. Her teaching areas encompass Corporate Governance, Corporations and Associations Law, Not-for-Profit and Charity Law, Comparative Business Law, Financial Integrity, and Financial Inclusion. Key publications include the chapter 'Charities, non-profit organisations and the FATF: testing the evidence base and proportionality of risk-based counter-terrorist-financing regulation' (2025) in Combating Financial Crime; 'Good governance, greater resilience: safeguarding South Africa’s NPOs against financial exclusion' (2025) in the Inyathelo Annual Report; commissioned reports for the Asian Development Bank, 'Fiji: A Diagnostic Report on Current Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism' (2024) and 'Papua New Guinea: A Diagnostic Report' (2024); 'Regulating volunteer directors’ duties in companies registered with the Australian charities and not-for-profits commission' (2022) in the University of New South Wales Law Journal, volume 45(2); and the edited volume Disqualification of Company Directors: A Comparative Analysis of the Law in the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US and Germany (2017).