Mr Peter Jones

Biography

Occupation: Assistant Director Innovation Employer: Defence Geographic Centre Memo: Mr Peter Jones is Assistant Director Innovation Division within the Defence Geographic Centre. He has prime responsibility for the successful introduction of a major project for production and workflow management systems. He leads a team of 58 staff responsible for evaluating current and anticipated geographic capabilities against known and potential future user requirements, the development of prototyping and operational concept demonstrations using both commercial applications and in-house developments. He has worked in the Ministry of Defence for 30 years, the vast majority of which has been spent in the geospatial analysis discipline. He graduated from University College London with a BA in Geography and 20 years after completion he undertook a MA in Library and Information Systems at the same institution. During his time in the DGC he has worked on a wide variety of projects in many different roles. During the first Gulf War he was the lead for RAF Operational Support at the DGC, in recognition of which he was invested as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). He was the UK lead for a major joint US/UK project, spending eight months in Valley Forge Pennsylvania, working on system familiarisation and course design. More recently he enjoyed a temporary promotion to the post of Director International, during which time he travelled extensively on a global basis to negotiate access to geospatial material from other countries. He became President of The British Cartographic Society in November 2012.