Dr. Angela Hecimovic | Climate Change | Research Excellence Award

The University of Sydney Business School | Australia

Dr Angela Hecimovic is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School (Accounting, Governance & Regulation discipline). She earned her PhD in 2017 from Macquarie University (thesis: “Assurance of Natural Resource Management”), and holds a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (2017). With teaching experience spanning two decades, she has served in roles including Lecturer (2010–2023), Industry Placement Coordinator and Unit Convenor, and now Dalyell Program Director. She has been honoured with numerous teaching awards, such as the inaugural Students’ Choice Award, the Wayne Lonergan Excellence in Teaching Award, multiple Dean’s citations, and the 2019 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her research investigates how contemporary developments — especially digital auditing, adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in auditing, sustainability reporting, non-financial reporting, and global supply-chain assurance — are transforming the auditing profession. Using qualitative case-studies and interview-based research methods (sometimes complemented by surveys), she explores audit quality, assurance in public/non-financial contexts and the impact of technology on audit practices. She has contributed around 13 documented works (articles, conference papers, reports), accumulating about 355 citations and an assumed h-index of 8. Her work contributes to both academic discourse and the practical employability of graduates, bridging theoretical developments and real-world auditing and assurance challenges.