Vanessa Lawrence

Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence (born 14 July 1962) is a British businessperson, geographer and speaker working internationally.

For 14 years, until April 2014, she was Director-General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's national mapping agency. She was the first woman to hold the post and at the time of her departure had held the Director General role longer than any predecessor in more than a century.

In 2015 Lawrence was appointed Global advisor for geospatial information to the World Bank Group.

The same year, she was also appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Satellite Applications Catapult Ltd, a Director of Location International, a Location Global Ltd Company and a Member of the Advisory Groups of the Urban Big Data Centre, Seraphim Space LLP, the Space Venture Capital Fund backed by the British Business Bank and Spatial Finance Initiative. Provided by Wikipedia