Robin Sibson

Robin Sibson (4 May 1944 – 19 March 2017) was a British mathematician and educator.

He was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, professor of statistics at the University of Bath and then vice-chancellor of the University of Kent. He was chief executive of the Higher Education Statistics Agency from 2001 until 2009. He was also a member of the Committee for Higher Education and Research (CC-HER), the predecessor to the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (CDESR).

He died on 19 March 2017 at the age of 72.

He was the developer of natural neighbour interpolation on discrete sets of points in space.

• Sibson, Robin; Jardine, Nicholas (1971). Mathematical taxonomy. London, New York: Wiley. ISBN 9780471440505.

• Sibson, Robin (1981), "A brief description of natural neighbour interpolation", in Barnett, Vic (ed.), Interpreting multivariate data, Chichester West Sussex New York: Wiley, pp. 21–35, ISBN 9780471280392