Dr. Nadine Alameh is the inaugural Executive Director of the Taylor Geospatial Institute – a new institute in the US, founded to fuel geospatial science & technology with a consortium of academic & research organizations in the Midwest. Dr. Alameh is a recognized leader (and cheer-leader) in the geospatial field with experience in Aviation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Earth Observations, Public Safety, and Defense.

Prior to joining the Taylor Geospatial Institute, she was CEO & President of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) where she led the global consortium in making geospatial information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). During her career, Nadine held various roles in industry from the Chief Architect for Innovation at Northrop; to CEO of an Aviation startup; to senior technical advisor to NASA’s Applied Science Program. 

Dr. Alameh is an appointed member of the U.S. National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) and sits on the board of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Private Sector Network. She has received multiple awards – most recently the 2023 Annual Women in Technology Leadership award, the 2022 Geospatial World Diversity Champion award, and the 2019 Geomatics Canada Diversity Leadership Award.

Nadine has a Ph.D. and 2 M.S. degrees from MIT in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-related fields, and has a Bachelor in Computer & Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut.