Lisa Carlin

Lisa is a Director in the Adelaide BDO Economics team. She is committed to fostering genuine client relationships through authenticity, accountability and integrity. Coupled with a consistently high standard of work and excellent communication and organisation skills, this approach results in long-lasting, trusted working partnerships.

With more than 17 years of experience, Lisa’s exceptional technical knowledge and fundamental expertise in economic methods underlies her strength in understanding her client’s needs, tailoring research design and the delivery of complex economic analyses. She specialises in a range of economic services and methodologies that result in high-quality deliverables for clients across a broad selection of industries, with a particular focus on fisheries and aquaculture, tourism, regional development and emerging industries. Lisa’s services include cost-benefit analysis, economic impact analysis, business cases and feasibility studies, industry and market analysis and socio-economic profiling.

Expertise

• Cost benefit analyses for regional development agencies, state and local government or private sector
• Input-output analyses for regional development agencies, state and local government or private sector
• Business cases and feasibility studies for public and private sector
• Regional economic analyses for tourism development projects
• Economic and social monitoring programs for industry and state governments or private sector
• Economic and social research for R&D organisations in the fishing and aquaculture industries.

Experience

State government

• Ongoing monitoring and reporting of economic and social indicators for fisheries industries for several states
• Economic evaluation of an irrigation industry improvement program
• Economic evaluation of a water recovery program
• Economic contribution of visitors to state forests
• Business case for the replacement of a government asset.

 Industry organisations

• Analysis of the economic contribution of individual industries to regional, state and/or national economies. Examples include fisheries, aquaculture, music, dairy and wine sectors
• Analyses of the economic contribution of a horse racing club to local area and sub-state regional economy.

 Other select engagements

• Economic analyses of local government infrastructure, services and facilities, including retirement villages, childcare centres, play spaces, visitor centres, sporting precincts and accommodation.
• Cost-benefit analysis of a not-for-profit regional financial counselling service.

 Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Economics
• Bachelor of Finance
• Member, Economic Society of Australia
• Member, Women in Economics Network.

Professional engagements and activities

• InDaily | SA’s live music industry is worth half a billion dollars, 30 August 2024.