Dr George Shan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance of UWA Business School at The University of Western Australia.

He holds Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Applied Finance, Master of Commerce (Accounting) and completed his PhD in Accounting and Corporate Governance. George is CA (Australia), CPA (Australia) and CMA (Australia), and has taught at several other Universities including University of South Australia, University of Ballarat, The University of Adelaide and University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Dr Shan has been recognised in the Stanford University/Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists Database (Single-Year Impact, 2026 Edition). Ranked  271st among 16,367 researchers in the Finance subfield worldwide, placing within the top 1.7% of scholars in the discipline.

He is an experienced principal supervisor for HDR students, and his current research areas and interests include corporate governance, corporate innovation, accounting quality, earnings management, tunneling, related-party transactions, audit quality, CSR/ESG, AI, crowdfunding/FinTeach, cybersecurity, sustainability reporting, and carbon accounting.

He serves as an Associate Editor for International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (ABDC A), and Economics & Politics (ABDC A).

Corporate governance, AI, cybersecurity, crowdfunding, ESG, accounting information system, green innovation, and carbon accounting