Dean Neu is a professor of accounting at York University, Canada.

The starting point is the recognition that accounting numbers both help make certain aspects of organizational reality visible and distributes economic resources.

These public interventions include speaking out against concrete forms of neo-liberalism such as government privatization[7] and deficit-cutting activities that disproportionately affect the most vulnerable members of society.

[8] Neu, along with David J. Cooper[9] and Yves Gendron,[10] has trained a number of public interest accounting academics in Canada.

His former students include Jeffery Everett, Cameron Graham, Susan Greer, Elizabeth Ocampo, Darlene Himick, Gregory Saxton, and Kate Ruff.