Annemarie Gillies

Annemarie Gillies is a New Zealand Māori academic, and is Professor of Māori Research at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawke's Bay. She was formerly a professor at Massey University.

Academic career

Gillies is Māori, and affiliates to Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Awa, Te Whanau-a-Apanui and Te Arawa iwi. She worked in the freezing works at Whakatu until they were closed in 1986, and then studied business administration at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT). She worked first in accounts, and later completed a National Certificate of Business Studies. Gillies went on to gain a Bachelor of Business Studies majoring in Accountancy from Massey University.

Gillies is part of the Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga Centre of Research Excellence where she is researching Māori governance structures, and part of the Indigenising the blue economy project in the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge. She is a member of the Aotearoa Research Ethics Committee, a national independent ethics committee for community-based research. Selected works