Roger Simon Bivand (born 5 April 1951) is a British geographer, economist and professor at the Norwegian School of Economics.
He specialises in open source software for spatial analysis,[1] and played a major role in developing functions for spatial data in the R statistical programming language, including the R packages sp, rgdal, maptools and rgrass7.
[5] He studied geography at the University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1975,[1] with a thesis on the economic geography of Sogn og Fjordane in Norway.
[1] Bivand joined the Norwegian School of Economics in 1988 and was appointed a professor in 1996.
[1] In 1991-92 he was the director of the Business School (MBA studies) of the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland).