David is currently a Regional Collection Officer at the Defence Geographic Centre (DGC) collecting all forms of geospatial data for UK Defence. He has a BA(Hons) in Geography, post-graduate Diploma in Cartography and over twenty years experience of map cataloguing, research and collection at DGC and the MoD Map Library.
David joined BCS in 1987 and Council in 1998 and has interests in the Map Curators and Historical Military Mapping special interest groups. He is a Chartered Geographer (Cartography), Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and member of the Charles Close Society.