Andrew Turner is the Chief Technology Officer of ArcGIS Hub and Director of Esri's R&D Center in Washington, DC, where he leads development of technologies for open data sharing and geospatial web collaboration. He previously served as CTO of GeoIQ (acquired by Esri in 2012) and co-founded CrisisCommons.

Andrew is an elected charter member of the OSGeo Foundation and has served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Geographic Sciences Committee. His work enables organizations worldwide to provide public digital infrastructure for citizen and community engagement, spanning global organizations like World Resources Institute and World Bank to federal agencies and local governments.

Andrew holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech. He is a longtime advocate of open standards and open data, actively involved in organizations like OpenStreetMap, Open Geospatial Consortium, and OSGeo.