International Advisory Board
Patron
A.S. Kiran Kumar
Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation
Co-Patron
Dr. Swarna Subba Rao
Surveyor General of India
Convenor
Sanjay Kumar
CEO, Geospatial Media and Communications
Y.Bhg. Datuk Sr Ahmad Fauzi Bin Nordin
Director General, Department of Survey and Mapping, Malaysia
Alessandro Annoni
Head of the Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Bengt Kjellson
Director General, Swedish National Land Survey, Sweden
Dr. Derek Clarke
Chief Director of Survey and Mapping & National Geospatial Information, Department
of Rural Development and Land Reform, South Africa
Jerry Johnston
Director, Information and Technology Management Division, Department of the Interior,
United States
Rolando Ocampo
Vice President, INEGI, Mexico
Dr. Vinay Kumar Dhadwal
Director, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Aida Opoku-Mensah
OiC Capacity Development Division, Special Advisor: Agenda 2030, UN Economic Commission
for Africa (ECA)
Barbara Ryan
Secretariat Director, GEO, Switzerland
Basanta Shrestha
Director of Strategic Cooperation, International Center for Integrated Mountain
Development (ICIMOD), Nepal
Greg Scott
Inter-Regional Advisor, UNGGIM Secretariat, United States
Mark Reichhardt
Chief Executive Officer, OGC, United State
Menno-Jan Kraak
Professor|President, International Cartographic Association, The Netherlands
Ole Oldeen
Communication and Information Manager, Future Position X, Sweden
Dr Shailesh Nayak
Distinguished Professor, Ministry of Earth Science, Government of India
Steve Ambrosini
Executive Director, IJIS Institute, United States
Christian Heipke
Professor, Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation, Leibniz University, Germany
Josef Strobl
Professor| Chair, Department of Geomatics, University of Salzburg, Austria
Milan Konecny
Professor, Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Nitin Kumar Tripathi
Professor, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse
Director - NSW Business Development, Research & International Relations, CRC for
Spatial Information, Australia
Beng Chieh Quah
Director Marketing – Asia Pacific, Faro Asia Pacific, Singapore
Chris Barlow
Director of Strategic Relations & Communications, Thomson Reuters, United States
Johannes Riegl Jr
Chief Marketing Officer, RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems, Austria
John Renard
President EMEA, Cyient, United Kingdom
Kristin Christensen
Chief Marketing Officer, Hexagon, United States
Mark Freeburn
Chief Executive Officer, AAM Group, Australia
Reida Elwannas
President, Rolta Middle East, UAE
Ron Bisio
Vice President, Trimble, United States
Shawana Johnson
President, Global Marketing Insights, United States
Taner Kodanaz
Director, Industry Leadership Champion, DigitalGlobe, United States
