Sir Roland Wilson CBE (7 April 1904 – 25 October 1996) was a senior Australian public servant and economist.
[1] He studied at Devonport High School, where he won a scholarship to take an economics course at the University of Tasmania.
[2] The Rhodes Scholarship took him to the University of Oxford where he studied for the degree of doctor of philosophy.
[3] Wilson was appointed Secretary of the Department of Labour and National Service as a war-time secondment in 1940.
[1][4] In 1946, after World War II, Wilson resumed his position as Commonwealth Statistician until the Menzies government made him Secretary of the Department of the Treasury in 1951.