William Bertie Provost Robson (born 1959) is president and CEO of the C.D.

He has written more than 200 monographs, articles, chapters and books on such subjects as government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, inflation and currency issues.

His work has won awards from the Policy Research Secretariat, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Donner Canadian Foundation.

He is a senior fellow at Massey College, holds an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors, and is a member of the Big Picture Panel on the CBC's Lang and O'Leary Exchange.

[1] Robson was a guest at Joseph Oliver's annual policy retreat in Wakefield Quebec.