Paul Andon is a Professor of Accounting and serves as Dean of UNSW Business School. He has previously held a range of faculty leadership roles, including Senior Deputy Dean (Education and Student Experience), Faculty Academic Lead, and Head of School for Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, and Deputy Head of School and Director of Engagement for the former School of Accounting. His work spans research on accounting and professional practice, business education reform, and academic leadership in Australia's leading business school.

As a higher education leader, Professor Andon has overseen significant educational reform across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. His contributions include establishing a faculty-wide AI direction and discipline action plans, a School-wide accounting education strategy, redesign of the Master of Professional Accounting with embedded CPA pathways; the creation of the Sustainability & Social Impact major in the Bachelor of Commerce; and the development of courses in Fraud Examination and Management Accounting.

Professor Andon's academic interests sit at the intersection of business education, financial management, and the rapidly advancing impact of AI and technology on knowledge work. He studies the human side of accounting, looking beyond the numbers to examine how accounting practices such as performance measurement, costing, and auditing shape how people behave, how they work together, what they prioritise and value, and how they build (or break) trust and accountability. Specifically, his work explores how: individuals rationalise financial crime, KPIs and digital algorithms are mobilised to manage the modern workforce, the accounting profession is organised and governed, and auditing practices are increasingly used to restore public trust in high-stakes contexts.

His research has been supported by the Australian Research Council and partners, including McGrathNicol’s Financial Crime Exchange, the Australian Institute of Criminology, CIMA, and CAANZ.

Professor Andon has published in leading international journals (FT50 and A*) in accounting and management, and his work has been showcased in industry forums and keynote presentations on financial crime and the future of the accounting profession. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Professor Andon has received teaching and research awards from the International Federation of Accountants, the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, Emerald Publishing, the AGSM, and UNSW Business School.