Conor Ryan (born 1963) is an Irish-born UK-based senior civil servant, independent writer and consultant, journalist, and adviser who is Director of External Relations at the Office for Students, a non-departmental public body of the British Department for Education. He served as a special adviser and the senior education adviser to British Secretary of State for Education and Employment David Blunkett from 1997 to 2001 and then to British Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2005 to 2007.