About Mr. Mike Jackson

Mike Jackson was appointed to the Chair of Geospatial Science at the University of Nottingham in April 2005 where he has established the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS). He was previously Director of the Space Division at QinetiQ. Mike was Head of Location Platform at Hutchison 3G between 2000 and 2002 with design responsibility for the 3-G location-based services for Hutchison Wampoa's global telecommunications companies.

Earlier he was CEO of geospatial software developer Laser-Scan Holdings plc. and he held research/management posts at the Natural Environment Research Council (during which time he was a Principal Investigator for NASA) , the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell and the Department of Environment.

Mike has a 1st in Geography and a PhD (Civil Engineering) both from Manchester University and an honorary doctorate from Kingston University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a non-executive director of the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc (OGC) and Chairman, Commission 5 (Networks) of EuroSDR.