Vanessa Lawrence
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Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence CB HonFREng FRGS FRICS FRSGS CCMI (born 14 July 1962) is a British businessperson, geographer and speaker working internationally.
Vanessa Lawrence | |
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Global Advisor for Geospatial Information to the World Bank Group | |
Assumed office 2015 | |
President | Ajay Banga David Malpass Kristalina Georgieva (Acting) Jim Yong Kim |
1st Co-chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) | |
In office 2011ā2015 | |
Under Secretary-General | |
Director-General and Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey | |
In office 2000 ā April 2014 | |
Preceded by | David Willey |
Succeeded by | Neil Ackroyd |
Personal details | |
Born | (1962-07-14) 14 July 1962 (age 61) Amersham, Buckinghamshire[1] |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Geographer |
For 14 years, until April 2014, she was Director-General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's national mapping agency.[2] She was the first woman to hold the post and at the time of her departure had held the Director General role longer than any predecessor in more than a century.[3][4][5]
In 2015 Lawrence was appointed Global advisor for geospatial information to the World Bank Group.[6][7]
The same year, she was also appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Satellite Applications Catapult Ltd,[8] a Director of Location International, a Location Global Ltd Company[9] and a Member of the Advisory Groups of the Urban Big Data Centre,[9] Seraphim Space LLP,[10] the Space Venture Capital Fund backed by the British Business Bank and Spatial Finance Initiative.[11]