Robert (Roy) Charles Geary (April 11, 1896 – February 8, 1983)[1] was an Irish mathematician, statistician and founder of both the Central Statistics Office and the Economic and Social Research Institute.
[4][5][6] Geary was born in Dublin, Ireland and received his secondary education at the O'Connell School.
He was awarded a scholarship to continue his study at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he attended lectures by Émile Borel, Élie Cartan, Édouard Goursat, Henri Lebesgue, and Paul Langevin.
He was the founding director of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in 1960 where he stayed till his retirement in 1966.
[7] To honour his contributions to social sciences, the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy was named after him in 2005.