Christopher Derek Hacon FRS (born 14 February 1970) is a mathematician with British, Italian and US nationalities.

Hacon was born in Manchester, but grew up in Italy where he studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore and received a degree in mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1992.

He received his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998, under supervision of Robert Lazarsfeld.

[3] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 in Hyderabad, on the topic of "Algebraic Geometry.

"[4] In 2011, he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications by Italy's prestigious Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.