Marc G. Genton, (born September 1969 in Geneva, Switzerland) is currently a Distinguished Professor of Statistics with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is known as a specialist in , Data Science and their applications in geophysics, climate science, and marine science. The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences awarded him the Georges Matheron Lectureship in 2020. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2007), Elected member to the International Statistical Institute (2008), Fellow member of the Royal Statistical Society (2009), Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2010), and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012).