Catherine Ruth Wylie MNZM is a New Zealand academic, and is Emeritus Chief Research at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, specialising in the impacts of educational policy.

Wylie completed a PhD titled Reflective Surfaces: the Individual as the Key Social Relationship in New Zealand Society at Victoria University of Wellington in 1980.

She also conducted a longitudinal study called Competent Learners, which tracked a group of students from the end of their early childhood education through to age 26.

[4] Wylie was appointed as part of the five-person review panel for Tomorrow's Schools, which produced a 2018 report.

[4] In the 2014 New Year Honours, Wylie was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education.