Robert James Elliott (born 1940) is a British-Canadian mathematician, known for his contributions to control theory, game theory, stochastic processes and mathematical finance.
He was schooled at Swanwick, Derbyshire and studied mathematicsin which he earn a B.A. (1961) and M.A. (1965) at the University of Oxford, as well as a Ph.D (thesis Some results in spectral synthesis advised by John Williamson , 1965) and Sc.D. (1983) from University of Cambridge.He taught and conducted research atUniversity of Newcastle (1964),Yale University (1965-66),University of Oxford (1966-68),University of Warwick (1969-73),Northwestern University (1972-73),University of Hull (1973-86),University of Alberta (1985-2001),University of Adelaide (1997-99) andUniversity of Calgary (2001-).