Claudia Devita Scott ONZM (born 1945) is an American-New Zealand academic.
Scott's 1971 PhD thesis was titled Forecasting public outlays: an expenditure model for New Haven, Connecticut.
Scott was appointed an honorary Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to public administration and the community.
[2] Between 2003 and 2014 Scott was professor of public policy at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and was appointed a fellow in 2015.
In 2004, their daughter Carla Devita Scott, 26, drowned while walking in the area.