Ms. Denise McKenzie

Denise McKenzie is Chair of the Association for Geographic Information in the United Kingdom, co-Director of the Benchmark Initiative operating through Ordnance Survey’s Geovation accelerator and co-author of the Locus Charter, a set of principles to guide the ethical and responsible use of location data. She is an international geospatial policy and strategy professional with a specialty in community building and public/private partnership. In the broader geospatial community, she is part of the steering committee for Women in Geospatial+ and an advisory board member for the Location Based Marketing Association and PLACE. Previously she has worked with the Victorian State Government in Australia and as the Head of Outreach at OGC where she led work such as the UNGGIM Geospatial Standards Guides.