Mr. Luc St-Pierre

Chief, Space Applications Section, UNOOSA

Luc St-Pierre (M.Sc. Geography, University of Sherbrooke, Canada and M.Sc. Environmental Economics, Wye Imperial College, University of London) is a Geographer born in Québec, Canada. He worked at developing geographic information systems for the management of the environment and natural resources in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 1990’s before joining the United Nations in 2000. He first helped developed datasets and GISs for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in its work to protect marine biodiversity and control marine pollution. Between 2005 and 2012 he strengthened the mapping, remote sensing and GIS capabilities of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to improve the support and assistance during humanitarian crisis. He joined the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in 2012 to supervise the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) and is Chief of the Space Applications Section of UNOOSA since April 2016.