Ian is Deputy Director, Enterprise and Engagement. He joined WorldPop in 2023 following 4 years as Geospatial Adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and 14 years in the UK Civil Service. He was Director of the Association for Geographic Information from 2014 to 2017, and is a regular user of WorldPop data through his volunteering work for MapAction.
The WorldPop research programme, based in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton, is a multi-sectoral team of researchers, technicians and project specialists that produces data on population distributions and characteristics at high spatial resolution.
Initiated in October 2013 to combine The AfriPop Project, AsiaPop and AmeriPop projects, we have a diverse portfolio of projects, including large multi-million-pound collaborative projects with partner organisations, commercial data providers and international development organisations.
