Dr Mohini Vidwans is the Associate Dean-Academic in the Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce at Lincoln university. She is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management. The underlying theme of Mohini’s research is challenging discrimination based on gender and race. Her work helps identify the crafting strategies used by minoritised trailblazers in the accounting profession.

Mohini will present her recently published paper with Ros Whiting and Carolyn Fowler on Sir Hēnare Ngata, the first Māori Public Accountant in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sir Hēnare Ngata combined Māori culture, Māori practices and beliefs with the tools of Anglocentric accounting to support Māori in navigating land development, business financial requirements and policies and programmes. His bicultural approach combining the holistic Māori worldview and Anglocentric accounting provides rich insights for those involved in social and environmental accounting and governance reporting.

Dr Ellie Norris is a Lecturer in Accounting at the UC Business School, with more than 13 years' professional experience in finance roles in the corporate and not-for-profit sectors. Ellie's research publications highlight the unique governance and accountability contexts of these Indigenous organisations, their experiences of accounting and corporate reporting, and how they are finding novel ways to tell their stories.

Dr Ellie Norris will share insights from recent research with Dr Matt Scobie (Ngāi Tahu) and Holly Wilson, exploring how Māori understandings of intergenerational responsibility can inform responses to the climate crisis. Their work highlights the tensions between Indigenous concepts of ancestral accountability and commercial 'best practice', revealing how these 'two worlds' can both clash and coexist in practice.