Roeland Jaap (Roel) in 't Veld (born 20 July 1942) is a Dutch scholar of public administration and Labour Party politician.
In 1989 he founded together with Uri Rosenthal, the Dutch School of Public Administration (NSOB), and until 2004 was its dean.
In 't Veld returned to the academic world from 1988 to 1993, as Professor of Public Administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
In't Veld, however, stepped back after ten days because of problems surrounding secondary functions that he fulfilled.
From 1994 to 2005 he was extraordinary professor of organizational behavior at the University of Amsterdam, and hereby to 2002 Rector of Sioo, inter-university center for organizing and changing.