Professor Abbas Rajabifard is Director of the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration, and Head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, at the University of Melbourne.. He is Chair of the UN Global Geospatial Information Management Academic Network, and immediate Past-President of Global Spatial Data. Infrastructure (GSDI) Association and is an Executive Board member of this Association. He is also a member of the International Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JBGIS). He has spent his career researching, developing, applying and teaching spatial information management and strategies particularly for spatial data infrastructures to deliver benefits to both governments and wider society and is acknowledged as one of the pioneers in the concept of spatial enablement – using location to facilitate decision making.
