Nadine Alameh
Nadine is the CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) – a not-for-profit membership organization hosting the largest collective-problem solving global community of geospatial experts making location information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) via open standards, innovations, and partnerships.
Nadine spent her career applying open mapping/geospatial standards in multiple domains including aviation, earth observations, public safety, and defense. Prior to OGC, her industry roles included Chief of Innovation at Northrop Grumman, CEO of Aviation data management startup, and senior advisor to NASA Applied Sciences.
Nadine is an appointed member of the U.S. National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) and the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Private Sector Network. Nadine was awarded the 2022 Geospatial World Diversity Champion award and the 2019 Geomatics Canada Diversity Leadership Award.
She has a Ph.D. and 2 M.S. degrees from MIT all revolving around advancements in interoperability of Geographic Information Systems (GIS); and a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut.
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