{"id":58908,"date":"2019-06-21T14:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=58908"},"modified":"2022-10-19T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:44:18","slug":"geospatial-commission-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/geospatial-commission-director\/58908\/","title":{"rendered":"Geospatial Commission appoints new director"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Following an open competition John Manzoni, the chief executive of the civil service and permanent secretary, has announced that Thalia Baldwin will be appointed as the new director of the\u00a0Geospatial Commission\u00a0from 1 August 2019<\/h2>\n<p>Thalia is currently deputy director for policy at the Geospatial Commission. She was previously head of digital policy at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/hm-treasury\">HM Treasury<\/a>, where she was responsible for the approach to public spending on digital technology and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Andrew Dilnot, chair of the Geospatial Commission, said: \u201cI am delighted to welcome Thalia to this role. The intelligent use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/geospatial-data-accessible\/55787\/\">data presents a huge opportunity<\/a> to enrich our society, strengthen our economy and tackle the issues of the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe potential of new technology in the geospatial domain is huge, and questions about how best to facilitate the use of data are important and fascinating. I look forward to working with Thalia to address these questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Manzoni paid tribute to the outgoing director of the Geospatial Commission, William Priest: \u201cUnder William\u2019s leadership the Commission has established a strong team of functional expertise, delivered the first outputs to unlock an estimated \u00a311bn of economic value and begun to assemble the evidence it needs to develop a long term geospatial strategy for the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank William for the energetic and dynamic approach he has taken to setting up the Commission from scratch and forming the basis for a significant new national capability.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Manzoni has announced that Thalia Baldwin will be appointed as the new director of the\u00a0Geospatial Commission\u00a0from 1 August 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[428,574,688,725,276,661,579],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-bim","8":"tag-data-management","9":"tag-digital-construction","10":"tag-geospatial-mapping","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-hr","13":"tag-infrastructure"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Geospatial Commission appoints new director<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Manzoni has announced that Thalia Baldwin will be appointed as the new director of the\u00a0Geospatial Commission\u00a0from 1 August 2019\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/geospatial-commission-director\/58908\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Geospatial Commission appoints new director\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Manzoni has announced that Thalia Baldwin will be appointed as the new director of the Geospatial Commission from 1 August 2019.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/geospatial-commission-director\/58908\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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