Dr Alistair Edwardes CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: Economic Geographer Employer: BIS Memo: Department for Business Innovation & Skills Alistair is Economic Geographer at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, having previously worked as geographic analyst at the Department of Communities and Local Government applying GIS to analyse and support a range of socio-economic policy issues including; regional economic growth, regeneration, housing and repossessions, social cohesion, and the Big Society. He has also worked as a researcher at the University of Zurich where he investigated the design of geographic technologies for location based services and multimedia information retrieval. Prior to this, he researched the issue of generalising geographic information for maps and navigation both at the University of Edinburgh and in the private sector. Alistair has a Doctorate from Zurich and a Masters from Edinburgh both in GIS.