Joep Crompvoets
Professor in the Public Sector’ and Research Manager
Prof. Dr. ir. Joep Crompvoets is professor and research manager at KU Leuven Public Governance Institute (Belgium) holding the chair on ‘information management in the public sector’, and secretary-general of EuroSDR – a European spatial data research network linking national mapping agencies with research institutes and universities for the purpose of applied research in the domain of geospatial information management, and chairing the EuroSDR Commission on Business Models and Operation. He held faculty positions at Wageningen University (The Netherlands) and Melbourne University (Australia), and was employed by CSIC IRNAS research institute in Seville (Spain). He has been involved in numerous (inter)national projects related to spatial data infrastructures, GIS, public sector innovation and e-governance. His work has been supported by UN Statistics Division (UN-GGIM), World Bank, European Commission, BELSPO Federal Public Planning Service Science Policy (Belgium), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Flemish government, IWT Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology, and numerous national governments around the world. He has professional work experiences in Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Lithuania, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Uruguay. Finally, he wrote more than 400 publications in the fields of geo-information science (with emphasis on spatial data infrastructures), public information management, and soil science and is member of editorial boards of several scientific journals.
Public Governance Institute of KU Leuven
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