Mikel Maron builds collaborative processes to improve our data, advances our work with OpenStreetMap and helps grow the adoption of open geo data in businesses, governments and education. As Presidential Innovation Fellow at the US State Department Mikel has driven OpenStreetMap adoption across federal agencies. He is co-founder of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, co-founder of Map Kibera and GroundTruth Initiative and founding member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. He holds a masters degree in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from the University of Sussex, and bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz.
