Lisa Sylvia McNeill (née Simpson; born 1977) is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in consumer behaviour, especially with respect to sustainability, ethical consumption and fashion.
[2] She completed a PhD, with a thesis titled Retail sales promotion in the supermarket industry: a tri-country comparison of New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia, at the University of Otago in 2003.
[6] McNeill is a principal investigator in the Food Waste Innovation research theme at Otago, where her interest is in sustainable packaging of food, and consumer behaviour.
[6][8] According to the university, her 2015 paper with colleague Rebecca Moore examining relationships that people have with fashion and sustainability is "internationally considered a seminal work", and she authored one of the top ten most downloaded papers in the International Journal of Consumer Studies in 2020.
[8] McNeill is an associate editor or on the editorial board of a number of journals, including the International Journal of Consumer Studies, Sustainability, and Young Consumers.