BIOGRAPHY

Xavier R. Lopez, Ph.D.
Director, Location Services
Oracle Corp.
1 Oracle Drive
Nashua, NH 03060
Phone: (603) 897-3085
Fax: (603) 897-3269
xavier.lopez@oracle.com

Xavier Lopez is Director of Oracle's Location Services group. Xavier leads Oracle's efforts to incorporate spatial technologies across Oracle's database, application server, eBusiness applications. He has twelve years of experience in the area of GIS and spatial databases. He holds advanced engineering and planning degrees from University of Maine, MIT, and the University of California, Davis. Xavier has been active in numerous academic and government research initiatives on geographic information. He is the author of a book on government spatial information policy and has authored over 50 scientific and industry publications in areas related to spatial information technology.

Current Advisory and Board of Directors Participation
National Academies of Science, Transportation Research Board, Committee Member (2002-2003)
Geographic Information Technology Association (GITA), Board of Directors
International Geographic Information Foundation (IGIF), Board of Directors
Journal of Urban and Regional Information Systems (URISA), Editor
GeoWorld, Editorial Board

Education
1998 University of California, Berkeley, (Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow)
1996 University of Maine, Ph.D, Spatial Information Engineering
1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of City Planning
1984 University of California, BA Geography, Davis, BA