Mark Noort
Editor - Agriculture
Geospatial Media and Communications
The Netherlands

Biography
Mark Noort is the director/owner of HCP International. He coordinated the GEO network for capacity building project (GEONetCab), he is the project director of Earth Observation for Economic Empowerment Project (EOPOWER) and participates in a Project on Climate Change, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Management in the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas (IASON). He is also co-chair of the Institutions and Development Implementation Board of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). Previously he was head of Marketing and Project Services at the International. Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) for over 10 years. For more than 25 years he has managed and implemented projects in various fields, such as water management, natural resources, disaster management, agriculture, sanitation and marketing of higher education. Capacity building and fund raising are key elements in all these activities. He has vast international experience, also as an expatriate expert. He has been employed by NGO’s, companies, governments and universities. He is a graduate of Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

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