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. She then managed the Te Pūmanawa Hauora Māori Health Research Programme at Massey. In 2006, Gillies completed a PhD titled Kia taupunga te ngā kau Māori: anchoring Māori health workforce potential at Massey University, supervised by Mason Durie. Gillies was Director of Te Au Rangahau, the Māori Business Research Centre at Massey, and lectured in the School of Management.

Gillies was appointed Professor of Māori and Indigenous Research at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiārangi in Whakatāne. She then worked as the research director at health provider Te Puna Ora o Mataatua. In 2020 Gillies took a role as Pouarahi Rārangi Kōrero (Māori Heritage Listing Advisor) at Heritage New Zealand, where she helped whānau, hapū and iwi to research and write up their histories. She retained this role on a part time basis when appointed as Professor of Rangahau Māori (Māori Research) at EIT. With David Tipene-Leach, she is co-director of the Māori research centre Te Kura i Awarua, at the Hawke’s Bay Campus of EIT.

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.