Short biography

Eric is General-Advisor at the National Geographic Institute of Belgium (NGI-IGN). In this capacity, within the general management, he is responsible for, among other things, coordinating activities related to the "Solutions" department of the IGN.

Eric holds a master's degree in geography from the University of Liège. Eric joined the IGN in 1990 as a young geographer in charge of setting up GIS tools for the production of digital cartographic data. Eric then joined the remote sensing unit of the IGN to produce the Corine Land Cover data and participated in the INSPIRE "data specification" expert group. Eric then became Director of Cartography, Photogrammetry and the SDI department before joining the general management.

During all these years at NGI, Eric has acquired skills in training management, project management PMI and public management (Eric has an executive master’s in public management from the Solvay Brussels School). Eric is also a research associate from ULiège (University of Liège) in the field of geomatics and vice-president of AM-FM / GIS BeLux.

From 2016 to 2018, Eric was president of EuroSDR.

About the National Geographic Institute

The National Geographic Institute (NGI) is the national mapping agency of Belgium. It’s main mission is to make available complete spatial reference data covering the whole Belgian territory and of homogeneous quality for the citizens, the authorities and the private sector. NGI is also in charge of developing the national spatial data infrastructure. NGI is the recognized geospatial information broker in Belgium where stakeholders can readily benefit from the provision and use of geographic information.