Dr Vanessa Lawrence CGeog

Biography

Vanessa is Director General and Chief Executive Officer at Ordnance Survey, and a Non-Executive Director of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. She has a BA (Hons) Geography from University of Sheffield, and an MSc in Remote Sensing, Image Processing and its Applications from University of Dundee. She has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the University from Oxford Brookes and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Dundee. In addition, she has been awarded Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Science from the University of Sheffield, Kingston University and from the Nottingham Trent University on behalf of Southampton Institute. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors and has also received an Honorary Fellowship from University College, London, where until recently she was an external examiner. She is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography in the Faculty of Science, Kingston University, and at the Department of Geography at the University of Southampton, where she was appointed a member of the Council in 2002. She is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, and a member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society.