Ms Jean Smith CGeog

Biography

Occupation: Head Human Geography Employer: Defence Geographic Centre Memo: Jean Smith has an MA in Geography and Psychology from Dundee University, an MSC in Physical Geography from the University of Toronto, Canada and a postgraduate business diploma. She joined the MOD Mapping and Charting Establishment in August 1981 as a map researcher and has specialised in geographic research and terrain analysis in a number of posts during her career. She also has held posts in inhouse libraries and spent several years establishing policy and agreeing customer requirements for geographic support and how they should be satisfied. She spent 7 years in York as a corporate planner and manager of a private business college between 1995 and 2002. She has led elements of DGC's geographic research activities since November 2005 and has headed DGC's Human Geography team since its inception in 2008, working closely with UK and international partners to develop human geography approaches to complement topographic mapping in a military context. She was awarded an MBE in June 2009.