Linda Foster

Linda Foster oversees Esri’s worldwide strategic vision for land records, cadastre, surveying, and land administration. A leader in professional organizations, she is the President of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS), is a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NAEMS) Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies, and facilitated the statewide design of low distortion projections in her state for the National Geodetic Survey’s (NGS) upcoming datum updates. Foster is a registered land surveyor and certified GIS professional. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geological Engineering, a Master’s degree in GIS from Penn State University, and is a doctoral candidate in Surveying Engineering at the University of Maine.