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Olivier Cottray
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Profile Information
- Organization / Affiliation
- iMMAP
- Website
- http://www.immap.org
- Email
- ocottray@immap.org
- Keywords / Tags (expertise, interests)
- transport, logistics, network analysis, mobile GIS, data capture
- Bio
- Olivier Cottray is the Operations Manager for iMMAP, in charge of designing and overseeing GIS operations and projects. He is also President of iMMAP France, a newly established entity which, together with our Sweden office, will form the iMMAP Europe consortium.
Prior to joining iMMAP, Olivier spent four years as the UN Joint Logistics Centre's GIS Coordination and Development Officer where he headed the development of transportation and logistics information management standards, part of the wider UN Spatial Data Infrastructure initiative (UNSDI). This led to his nomination as co-chair of the CODATA Working Group tasked with the development of a public domain global roads database freely available to the humanitarian, environmental, developmental and academic communities.
He started his career in humanitarian GIS in 2002 when he helped found the NGO MapAction, a rapid response organization that provides immediate H.I.M. and GIS support during the first few weeks of a humanitarian emergency.
Olivier also has extensive field experience, having set up and run emergency GIS cells in a number of operations in Pakistan, Lebanon, Colombia, and throughout Africa.
Olivier completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography and Economics at the London School of Economics in 1998, then a Masters degree in GIS and Remote Sensing at the University of Cambridge in 1999.
He worked as geographic data analyst and aerial photographer for the British Antarctic Survey for three years before joining the humanitarian community.
Olivier has lectured in operational applications of GIS at the University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, Hanken University, Harvard, MIT and Tufts. He is co-authoring two chapters in Dr. Firoz Verjee's GIS Tutorial for Humanitarian Assistance and is currently writing a number of technical papers based on his operational experience.
- Project(s)
- OASIS Data fusion in Colombia (data access and sharing)
gROADS (open access roads data generation)
GIS Support to WFP Ethiopia (support to logistics)
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