Marie Driscoll

Adjunct Professor The New School

Marie Driscoll is a noted subject matter expert on beauty, fashion, luxury goods, retail, and sustainability. She is a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert 2021-2025, a RETHINK Retail Advisor and an NRF 2025 Voice of Retail.  Marie is founder of Driscoll Advisors, providing advisory services to retailers, brands and retailtech firms, an adjunct professor at Parsons The New School, FIT and CUNY Baruch College and a frequent contributor to The Robin Report, Inside Retail and media. She has served in key analytical and business development roles in leading financial research firms and was recognized three times in The Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” analyst survey, including first place ranking in the Clothing & Accessories industry. Marie is X-Coresight and X-S&P/CapIQ.  

Marie started Driscoll Advisors to provide consulting services to academia, industry, investors and non-profits. She works with retailers and brands on various growth and operational strategies, from international expansion to entering new categories, new markets and new consumer cohorts. She contributes content to The Robin Report and Inside Retail. As a thought leader, her contributions include research publications at Coresight, white papers for CohnReznick, Luxury Daily and Deloitte’s Global Powers of Luxury Goods 2014, and content development at LIM College and Parsons, The New School. Marie joined New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in 2016 where she is part of the Entrepreneurship Program at the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology. She is an adjunct instructor teaching Equity Analysis and Private Equity at CUNY’s Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College and teaches Funding Beauty & Fashion and Fashion Retailing and Buying at Parsons. Marie is the President of the Retail Marketing Society and sits on the board of the NRF’s (National Retail Federation) Industry Partnership Council (IPC) and an advisor to startups.