Steven Ramage

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Since 2016 Steven Ramage has been leading external relations at the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat. Steven works on the value and usefulness of Earth observations (EO) for research, policy, decisions and action, notably on the role of EO to provide insights and actionable information for the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, the UN 2030 Agenda and the New Urban Agenda. This is done with a focus on open data access, sharing, policies and use. Steven worked in the private sector for 20 years before he started consulting on location strategy for the World Bank and the United Nations in 2012. He was an owner/director of 1Spatial for almost 10 years before taking on a role as Executive Director of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and then Managing Director of Ordnance Survey International. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a SASNet Fellow at the Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He's also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Geneva, Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) in Switzerland, a Member of the OGC Global Advisory Council and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). He tweets as @steven_ramage