Steven Ramage
what3words
Director
London (index.home.raft)
Steven Ramage is an accidental geographer. He's currently a Director at what3words, on the Advisory Board of the Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde also in Glasgow with a particular interest in resilience and disaster management. He recently worked for the British Government as the Managing Director of Ordnance Survey's international business, advising governments on national location strategy including open data and open standards. Steven is now working for a British SME called what3words, which has created a new way to reference location (or provide addresses globally based on words not numbers). He has been a Senior Consultant for the World Bank in Africa and worked with the UN for last 8-10 years, most recently on the Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) initiative. Steven is very interested in the use of technology and simply communicating location to help international development, humanitarian response and save lives. He's a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the OGC Global Advisory Council.