Rowan Gillies is a plastic surgeon from Sydney, Australia and is a VMO Plastic Surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital. He has a specific interest in skin cancer, reconstruction and breast reconstruction as well as the management of severe burns and trauma.^[1] He is the youngest ever International Council President of the Nobel Prize–winning Médecins Sans Frontières.^[2]

Educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduating with honours from the University of New South Wales, Dr Gillies is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon.^[3] In January 2002 he became Australia's MSF leader and was thereafter elected as international leader that year.^[4] He has worked on the field for MSF in some of the world's most troubled regions, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Liberia, Beirut, Congo and Sri Lanka.^[5]

He was listed by The Age as one of "The 50 Australians Who Matter" in 2005.^[6]

Gillies delivered the prestigious 52nd annual Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture in 2009 in Brisbane, Australia.^{[7][failed verification]}

He is currently part of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, the findings of which were published in early May 2015.^[8]