Dr. Nadine Alameh

Dr. Nadine Alameh is the CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) – a not-for-profit membership organization hosting the largest collective problem-solving global community of geospatial experts making location information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) via open standards, innovations, and partnerships. Nadine spent her career applying open geospatial and mapping standards to create value in multiple domains including aviation, Earth observations, public safety, and defense. Prior to OGC, her industry roles included Chief Architect for Innovation at Northrop Grumman, CEO of an aviation data startup, and senior advisor to NASA Applied Sciences. Nadine is an appointed member of the U.S. National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) and the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Private Sector Network. Nadine was awarded the 2022 Geospatial World Diversity Champion award and the 2019 Geomatics Canada Diversity Leadership Award. Nadine graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering, and 2 Master’s Degrees in Civil Engineering and Urban Planning with a concentration in Geospatial Information Systems. She holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut.