John D. McLaughlin
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Professor and President Emeritus B.Sc.E., M.Sc.E. (UNB); Ph.D. (Wisconsin); NBLS; P.Eng.; FCAE Phone: 506-453-4801; Fax: 506-453-4908; E-mail Geographical Engineering Group |
John McLaughlin is a Professor of Geomatics Engineering. After serving as UNB's 17th President and Vice-Chancellor, Dr. McLaughlin was appointed President Emeritus in 2009.
Professor McLaughlin spent much of his academic and professional career as a leader in building the North American geomatics industry. He also worked extensively overseas in more than forty countries on the development of property systems with the World Bank, UNDP and many other international organizations. He has authored or co-authored more than two hundred publications, including Land Information Management, Land Administration and Geospatial Data Infrastructures published by Oxford University Press, and a series of seminal monographs published by the National Academy of Sciences press. He has supervised or co-supervised nearly one hundred graduate students and has held a series of international faculty appointments.
Dr. McLaughlin has been a member of several boards, including Service New Brunswick, the Research and Productivity Council, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission, the Order of New Brunswick, Geoconnections, the Huntsman Marine Science Centre, the Canadian Space Agency and the Council of Canadian Academies. He was a co-founder of two companies, one an American based technology consultancy and the other a Peruvian international development company. He is a Fellow of the Instituto Libertad Y Democracia in Peru and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. McLaughlin has served as President of a number of regional, national and international organizations, including the Canadian Council of Land Surveyors, the Canadian Institute of Geomatics and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Dr. McLaughlin has been recognized as one of Atlantic Canada's top CEO's by Atlantic Business Magazine and in 2007 he received the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Excellence in Public Administration. He has just been selected to receive the Order of New Brunswick.
Professional Activities
- Member Executive Committee, and Member Management Board of Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) (90-95)
- Member, U.S. National Research Council (NRC), Mapping Sciences Committee (90-95)
- Member, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) GIS Advisory Committee (96- )
- Member, Board of Directors, National Centre for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) (92-95)
- External Examiner, University of the West Indies, Trinidad (87-95)
- Examiner, Canada Land Surveys (1974-95)
- Member, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Grant Selection Committee for Civil Engineering (1993-96)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) research grant application reviewer
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant application reviewer
- Editorial Committee, Journal of Surveying Engineering, and West Indian Journal of Engineering, and Editorial Board, Urban and Information Systems Association Journal, Geo-Information Systems, GIS Law, and Land Use Policy.