About
Mark Iliffe PhD is a geographer at the United Nations Statistics Division working with Member States to develop global geospatial policy. He has over 15 years of experience working to develop geospatial capacity in developed and developing countries. Before joining the UN, he helped establish the Neodemographic Lab at the University of Nottingham and consulted for the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and other international organisations. He holds a PhD in Geography which focused on the role of community mapping and citizen-driven data as a means of bridging the data gap in developing countries. He has lived in the UK, USA, France, and Tanzania, and is currently struggling to learn Mandarin.
