Roderick Sinclair Ashwood Oram (3 November 1950 – 19 March 2024) was a New Zealand journalist writing on corporate, economic, and political issues.

He was an adjunct professor in the business school at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, and he contributed to several regional economic development projects.

He spent 20 years as an international financial journalist in Europe and North America, and travelled extensively in those continents and in Asia.

[2] In the 2006 Westpac Business & Financial Journalism Awards, Oram won the Reporting on Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability or Community Engagement category.

[citation needed] Penguin published Oram's book about the New Zealand economy, Reinventing Paradise, in August 2007.