Moderator
Greg Scott
Inter-Regional Advisor
Global Geospatial Information Management
United Nations Statistics Division
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations

Biography
Greg Scott is the UN's Inter-Regional Advisor on Global Geospatial Information Management for the recently established United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), an inter-governmental mechanism created by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in July 2011. Greg provides high level strategic policy advice and leadership in the coordination and implementation of UN-GGIM initiatives, particularly with the Member States and related International Organizations involved in national, regional and global geospatial information management. He is responsible for developing the substantive content for the UN-GGIM Committee of Experts, the UN-GGIM High Level Forum's, international technical capacity development workshops, and other international fora.

Prior to joining the UN Statistics Division in 2012, Greg led the National Geographic Information Group in Geoscience Australia, delivering Australia's national topographic mapping and derivative geospatial programs. He spent more than 20 years in Geoscience Australia in a number of key roles, including: undertaking applied research to assess the risks from natural and anthropogenic hazards to Australian communities; developing the methodological approaches, analytical tools and techniques to model critical infrastructure dependencies and inter-dependencies, and the flow on consequences of failure; and delivering independent high level scientific analysis and technical advice in the use of geospatial information for emergency management, critical infrastructure protection, and lifeline network functionality.

Greg possesses formal qualifications in cartography and survey mapping, has a Graduate Diploma in Geography from the Australian National University, and has a strong spatial analysis and modelling background.