Mr. Alan Leidner

Alan Leidner completed a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute in 1975. Mr. Leidner served as Assistant Commissioner in the NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DOITT) from 1998 to 2004, in charge of the City’s GIS Utility. In the Fall of 2001, he organized and managed the Emergency Mapping and Data Center (EMDC) which provided information and mapping services to 9/11 responders. Alan has also worked for Booz, Allen, Hamilton on critical infrastructure protection, and for the Fund for the City of New York heading their Center for Geospatial Innovation. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the NYC Geospatial Information Systems and Mapping Organization (www.gismonyc.org) and consults with the Open Geospatial Consortium on the development of the MUDDI underground infrastructure data model, and on a health data model and engineering report for OGC pertaining to the COVID pandemic. Additionally, he serves as an advisor to Utility Mapping Services (USMI), and to New York University on their UNUM - NYC infrastructure mapping project. Mr. Leidner was a recipient of the 2001 NYC Sloan Public Service Award and the 2002 ESRI Presidential Award. Among other writings, Alan’s “Geo-Info CONOPS” article was published by GeoWorld Magazine in October, 2007. In 2022 a Smart Cities chapter he co-authored with OGC’s George Percivall, was published in the Springer Handbook of Geographic Information, 2nd Edition.