The United Nations Economic and Social Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations,responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization,specifically in regards to the fifteen specialised agencies,the eight functional commissions,and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.
The Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) is an educational charity based in Perth,Scotland founded in 1884. The purpose of the society is to advance the subject of geography worldwide,inspire people to learn more about the world around them,and provide a source of reliable and impartial geographical information.
Catherine "Cathy" Bertini is an American public servant. She is the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate. She was the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program from 1992 to 2002. She served as the UN Under-Secretary for Management from 2003 to 2005. Currently she is a distinguished fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs,the Chair of the Board of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the Chair of the Executive Board of the Crop Trust.
The International Cartographic Association (ICA),is an organization formed of national member organizations,to provide a forum for issues and techniques in cartography and geographic information science (GIScience). ICA was founded on June 9,1959,in Bern,Switzerland. The first General Assembly was held in Paris in 1961. The mission of the International Cartographic Association is to promote the disciplines and professions of cartography and GIScience in an international context. To achieve these aims,the ICA works with national and international governmental and commercial bodies,and with other international scientific societies.
Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape is a Mexican economist. He served as chief economic advisor to President Vicente Fox and as Secretary of Economy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón since December 1,2006 to August 6,2008.
Avinash D. Persaud is Emeritus Professor of Gresham College in the UK. He was Chairman of Intelligence Capital Ltd.,a company specializing in analyzing,managing and creating financial liquidity in investment projects and portfolios. He was also the non-Executive Chairman of the London-based Elara Capital,an investment bank. Persaud was a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the Peterson Institute of International Economics,Executive Fellow of London Business School and Senior Fellow with the Caribbean Policy Research Institute and Head of its Barbados office.
David William Rhind is a British geographer and expert on geographic information systems (GIS). He was Vice-Chancellor of City University,London,until July 2007.
The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is a United States government committee which promotes the coordinated development,use,sharing,and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis. Its 32 members are representatives from the Executive Office of the President,and Cabinet level and independent federal agencies. The secretary of the Department of the Interior chairs the FGDC,with the deputy director for management,Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as vice-chair.
Alice Elizabeth Perkins,CB is a former British civil servant. She was appointed in July 2011 as the Chairman of Post Office Ltd.,a UK state-owned limited company,to lead the Board following the separation of the Post Office from the Royal Mail under the Postal Services Act 2011.
A national mapping agency is an organisation,usually publicly owned,that produces topographic maps and geographic information of a country. Some national mapping agencies also deal with cadastral matters.
Nigel Richard Clifford is a British executive and geographer. He is the current president of the Royal Geographical Society,the deputy chair of the UK's Geospatial Commission,and operating executive for Marlin Equity Partners.
Walter Purvis Smith CB OBE was an English land surveyor notable for being the first civilian Director General of the Ordnance Survey,from 1977 to 1985.
Amina Jane Mohammed is a British Nigerian diplomat and politician who is serving as the fifth Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously,she was Nigerian Minister of Environment from 2015 to 2016 and was a player in the Post-2015 Development Agenda process. She is also Chair of United Nations Sustainable Development Group.
Abbas Rajabifard is a Professor and the Director of the Smart and Sustainable Development and Discipline Leader of the Geomatics Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne,Australia. He is also the Director of the Center for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA).
The contributions of women in climate change have received increasing attention in the early 21st century. Feedback from women and the issues faced by women have been described as "imperative" by the United Nations and "critical" by the Population Reference Bureau. A report by the World Health Organization concluded that incorporating gender-based analysis would "provide more effective climate change mitigation and adaptation."
42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic) is a Royal Engineers regiment of the British Army. The regiment,formed originally in 1947,provides field deployable geographic services,including geodetic survey,terrain analysis,information management and dissemination and geospatial intelligence (GEOINT).
The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) is one of the nine expert groups of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to foster the global development geospatial information.
Ed Parsons is a London-based Geospatial Technologist and tech evangelist at Google. He is working to evangelise geospatial data for commercial application and consequently,to improve the usability and efficiency of location based tools at Google. He is credited as being one of the core proponents of Google Street View.
The International Society for Digital Earth is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Digital Earth concept. It publishes the International Journal of Digital Earth. It is recognized as one of the main international Geospatial Societies by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management. It is also a member of the Group on Earth Observations.
Manuel Ntumba is a Congolese-Togolese inventor,advisor,geostrategist and geospatial expert. He is the Founder of the global public-private partnership Tod'Aérs Global Network [TGN].
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