Robert Charles Oliver "Robin" Matthews (16 June 1927 – 19 June 2010) was an economist and chess problemist.
He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
He was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1965 to 1975 and the Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge from 1980 to 1991.
As a chess problemist he specialised in the composition of directmate three-movers, a field in which he was recognised as one of the world's leading exponents.
Matthews wrote many books on economics, among which: He also wrote two books on chess problems: This biography of a British economist is a stub.