Brent Jones, PE, PLS

Global Manager, Cadastre/Land Records, Esri

With Esri for over 15 years, Brent Jones oversees Esri’s worldwide strategic planning, business development, and marketing activities for land records, cadastral, surveying, and land administration.

As a recognized innovator, Jones specializes in modernizing existing land administration systems and designing new GIS-based cadastral management systems for small and large governments globally. He is a licensed professional land surveyor and engineer, past board member and president-elect of URISA, recipient of the 2019 URISA leadership award, past president of GITA (Geospatial Information and Technology Association) and a current member of the UNGGIM -LAS United Nations Committee of Experts on Geospatial Information Management sitting on the Expert Group on Land Administration and Management. Established in 1969, Esri creates systems that drive all components of land and cadastral administration, including addressing, registration, taxation/valuation, planning, and development.