Mr Andrew Claxton

Biography

Commander Andrew Claxton is a Royal Navy GEOINT and GIS specialist with deep expertise in maritime geospatial intelligence, environmental data exploitation and enterprise GIS uplift. His career spans operational forecasting, hydrographic and METOC intelligence, Defence GEOINT delivery and enterprise geospatial transformation. He leads Navy Digital’s Battlespace Awareness and Information Exploitation programme, delivering spatially integrated decision-support capabilities for complex maritime and joint operations. His work emphasises spatial data governance, metadata standards, analytics pipelines and multi domain integration to enable trusted decision advantage. Andrew is an active contributor across Defence geospatial communities, a mentor and a proponent of professional standards in GIS.