Pilar Ibarrola

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ibarrola and the second or maternal family name is Muñoz.

María del Pilar Ibarrola Muñoz (born 1944)^[1] is a Spanish statistician and stochastic control theorist, part of the early expansion of statistics into an academic discipline in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s.^[2] She was named professor of decision theory at Complutense University of Madrid in 1974,^[2][3] but soon after left for the University of La Laguna, where she was named as University Professor.^[2][4] She returned to the professorship of decision theory at Complutense University in 1979.^[5]

Ibarrola served as the third president of the Spanish Statistics and Operations Research Society (SEIO), from 1984 to 1986.^[6] She received the SEIO Medal in 2013.^[7]