Anthony Christopher Davison (born 28 February 1958)[1] is a British mathematical statistician and educator.
He made seminal contributions to extreme value theory, likelihood inference and environmental statistics.
He went on the obtain a Ph.D. in statistics in 1984 at the Imperial College London under the supervision of environmental scientist Helen ApSimon and statistician Richard L. Smith.
[1] Davison joined École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland in 1996 as a professor of statistics.
[1] In 2021, Davison, Holger Rootzén and other published work using the longevity data and extreme value theory to predict the age limit of humans.