David Borges

David Borges is a Physical Scientist with the NASA Earth Applied Sciences Disasters Program at NASA Langley Research Center. He provides international project management and geospatial analytics solutions to disaster related issues on a global scale through application development and geospatial enablement of Earth observation information. David currently serves as the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group Disasters (WGDisasters) Secretariat. He is also an active member of the UNDRR Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF) WG and UN-GGIM WG-Disasters. Before joining NASA, David spent ten years in the private sector supporting a variety of clients, including the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He is a GISCI Certified GIS Professional (GISP), PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and received his Bachelor’s degree in Geographic Information Science from Old Dominion University.

David is Co-Chair of GEO DRR Working Group, leading subgroup 1 and he is involved in Tasks 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 2.3.