Robert Wilfrid "Wilf" Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara (born 19 April 1947) is a Labour Party life peer and former adviser to Gordon Brown.

He then went on to study at University College, Oxford, obtaining an MA in Chemistry, and later at Napier Polytechnic (now Edinburgh Napier University), where he received an accountancy diploma (ACCA).

[2] Stevenson began his career as a Research Officer at the Edinburgh University Students' Association (1970–74).

After leaving government in 2010 he became the Chairman of the Foundation for Credit Counselling, remaining in that role until his retirement in 2015.

In 1991, he married Ann Minogue; they have one son, Tobin, and two daughters, Iona and Flora.