Dorine Burmanje
Chair of Executive Board
Dutch Kadaster
Netherlands

Biography
Dorine Burmanje is chair of the Executive Board of the Netherlands' Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, in short: Kadaster. Her main focus is to position Kadaster at national and international level as partner in property-related issues and geographic information; in close cooperation with stakeholders from the academic institutes as well as the public and private sector. Her main areas of responsibility include the general management of the organisation, the positioning of Kadaster as a non-departmental public body, the promotion of Kadaster as a player in the GEO sector as well as further development of innovation. Mrs Burmanje is an advisor to various associations in the field of spatial information; she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Netherlands Space Office. Besides, she is a Board Member of the Dutch Centre of Geodesy and Geo-informatics. Prior to her current position at Kadaster, Mrs Burmanje was the director of the Rijn and IJssel Waterboard. Kadaster plays a key role in safeguarding legal certainty in the property market. Ever since Kadaster was founded in 1832, it has been collecting information about the owners and locations of parcels of land. It makes this information available to citizens, companies and public sector agencies. Kadaster delivered about 19 million digital products of information in 2013 as requested by notaries, local authorities, businesses, financial institutions, individuals and other interested parties. In addition, Kadaster has an active role in issues of land planning and demands regarding specific geo-information. The total turnover of Kadaster was € 226 million in 2013. The organisation employs approximately 1700 FTE’s.