Ronald Tress


Ronald C Tress, CBE, was a British economist.
He studied Economics 1933-36 at University College, Southampton taking a University of London external degree.
Beginning in 1941 he was an economic adviser to the British War Cabinet for four years.
He became a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bristol in 1951.
He was Master of Birkbeck College, University of London from 1968 to 1977.
He was elected a Fellow of Birkbeck College, University of London in 1977.
He became director of the Leverhulme Trust of 1978.