Ryan Lanclos

Ryan Lanclos is the Director of Public Safety Solutions and Disaster Response at Esri where he is responsible for leading global initiatives for Esri across public safety and national security. He serves as Esri’s subject matter expert on GIS for emergency management, and he leads Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) that provides 24x7 GIS support to organizations during crises and disasters. In this role, Ryan led Esri’s global response to the COVID-19 pandemic - providing support to more than 5,000 organizations around the world. Previously Ryan served as Missouri’s first state geographic information officer (GIO) and GIS advisor for the Governor’s Homeland Security Advisory Council where he built the State’s first shared situational awareness tool and a nationally recognized biosecurity GIS program. He has participated as an innovation team and expert group member for the United Nations, and he most recently served as the director of state and local government at the nonprofit National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation. Ryan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geology from Centenary College of Louisiana, and a Master of Science in Cartography and GIS from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Ryan is a member of GEO DRR Working Group, supporting subgroup 1, involved in Tasks 1.1 and 1.2.