Lisa Marriott


Lisa Marriott is a New Zealand accounting academic. She is currently a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington.

Academic career

After working in the private sector in the UK and the public sector in New Zealand, Marriott did a 2008 PhD titled 'The Politics of Retirement Savings Taxation: a Trans-Tasman Comparison' at Victoria University of Wellington before joining the staff and rising to full professor.
In 2012, Marriott received a $300,000 Marsden Grant to examine the investigation, prosecution and punishment of white collar and blue collar crime, particularly comparing tax evasion to benefit fraud. Findings included that tax fraudsters are treated much more leniently than benefit fraudsters.

Selected works