Jordi Guimet

Who is Jordi Guimet?

Jordi Guimet is a Dr. Industrial Engineer. He is an expert on Information Technologies applied to land management, specially related with the Cadastre, Land Use and Urban Plan, and more recently in the fields of GIS, Maps in Internet, GeoWeb and interoperability technologies.

He has worked as civil servant in the Public Administration as Deputy General Director for Information Technologies in the General Direction of the Cadastre Organization, being in charge of the technical modernization of the Cadastre, introducing the IT and GIS technologies in all the cadastre offices and central services, and further as Regional Cadastre Director in Catalonia. During this period he also was the president of the Land Use and Valuation Coordination Committee of Catalonia, member of the Steering Committee of the “Organization of Land Use Planning Administrative Authorities ” of the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe and leader of a cadastral pilot project in Russia, among other responsibilities.

At the present, his most relevant activity is the development of the IDEC, the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Catalonia, created by law of the Catalan Parliament. He is a technical adviser of several governmental organizations in this field and in the cadastral and ownership registries. He collaborates as a researcher in the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in a European Project in the area of SDI’s.