Walter Timo de Vries

Summary

Chair of Land Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2015. At TUM I am currently director of the Master and PhD programes in Land Management and Land Tenure, Study Dean of the programs Geodesy and Geoinformatics and Academic coordinator of TUM.Africa. I am a member of the German Geodetic Commisison and member of the Bayern Academy of Rural Space. Upon completion of a geodetic engineering degree from the Technical University of Delft in 1988, I have worked since in a number of international projects in Asia, Africa and South America, and with UNITAR in Geneva until 1994, often dealing with land information and land reform, geospatial data infrastructures and professional training and education in land issues, cadastre and information management. At the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of Twente from 1994 till 2015 I have been programme director for the Geoinformation management programme, coordinator of different local courses on geospatial data infrastructures and long-term on site teamleader in projects in Namibia and Rwanda amongst others. His research involved a Netherlands research programme Geo-information and governance and a PhD dissertation with the Erasmus University Rotterdam in GeoICT Uniformity in Flexibility. Current research interests at TUM include smart and responsible land management, urban and rural development and capacity development for land policy.

Agricultural Science Emerging Technologies Legal Issues Microbiology Soil Science Spatial & Geographic Information Science