Roger Bivand is a geographer, emeritus professor at the Department of Economics of the Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway. His specialties are Geographical Information Analysis, Statistical programming and Spatial econometrics. Roger is author of numerous R packages and was the main author of the Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R book. He is an Ordinary Member of the R Foundation. He has worked with spatial autocorrelation since the 1970’s, and is a Fellow of the Spatial Econometrics Association. During the 2023 OpenGeoHub Summer school, he granted OpenGeoHub’s communication experts an interview, shared his experience as a teacher and a geographer, and gave the open-source geospatial community his advices on the use of the R packages he co-developed.