Meet the President
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President Univ.-Prof. Dr. -Ing. Holger Magel
The FIG General Assembly elected at its
meeting in Washington DC, United States in April 2002 Univ.-Prof.
Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel as FIG
President for a four-year term of office 1.1.2003-31.12.2006
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Curriculum Vitae
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel
Date of birth 3 May 1944
Nationality German
Status Married - wife Ansi
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Professional Career
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, born in
Neuburg/Donau in 1944. After doing A-levels in 1963 studies of Geodesy at
the Munich Technische Hochschule up to 1968. After first experiences with
a sworn engineer's office in Graz completion of the Bavarian Traineeship,
and leadership of Land Consolidation measures in Upper and Lower Bavaria.
From 1975 to 1978 position of a curator of the newly established Chair
of Rural Development and Land Consolidation at the Munich Technische
Universität. In 1977 obtaining the degree of a Doktor-Ingenieur about
rural planning.
Acting with the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and
Forestry in the Rural Development Department since 1978, in charge of
building up the Bavarian Village Renewal Programme as well as establishing
a new Method of Landscape and Regionalplanning within Rural Development.
Since 1 Febr. 1995 Head of the Rural Development Department and
Director General of the Bavarian Administration of Rural Development.
Since 1986 lectures for geodesists, civil engineers and geographers at
the Munich Bundeswehr University (up to 1990) and the Munich Technische
Universität. In 1993 appointment as an honorary professor for Rural
Development at the Munich Technische Universität.
President of the Bavarian Academy "Ländlicher Raum" (Rural Areas) since
1994.
Advisor of the European Commission for Rural Development in Eastern
Germany in 1992/93; chairman of the German Bund-Länder Team for Village
Renewal from 1984 - 1995; member of the board of the European Association
for Rural Development and Village Renewal.
Chair of the working group land readjustment and land economics of the
German Geodetic Commission since 2004
Acting as an expert in Eastern- and South Europe as well as in Asia and
South America. More than 250 expert publications and books on land
consolidation, Village renewal ,landscape planning , rural development and
civil society. Many lectures at home and abroad. Member of several
scientific institutions and NGO.
Vice-President (since 1999 ) and then President of the International
Federation of Surveyors, 2002-2006.
Since 1 Jan. 1998 Full Professor and Director of Institute.
Presentations
- Changing FIG – Model for a Changing World. Farewell speech at the
Handover Ceremony
on 2 December 2006 in Münster, Germany.
- FIG Vision, Mission and Activities - Promoting Sustainable
Development. Luncheon Address at the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors
(HKIS), 2 November 2006.
- FIG
President’s Welcome Address to the 50th Anniversary Celebration of WTSUM.
Wuhan, China P. R., 28 October 2006.
- President Holger Magel: From Surveying to Geomatics and Land
Management. About Future Perspectives of a Changing Discipline and
Profession. Presentation at the 14th International Conference on
Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2006) – The 21st Century’s Geoinformatics.
Wuhan, China P.R., October 28-29, 2006.
- Shaping the Change 2002-2006 – The German Period of FIG. FIG
President’s Address at the Opening Ceremony of the XXIII FIG Congress in
Munich on 10 October 2006.
- Shaping the Change - Congress Summary. Closing Address by FIG
President at the Closing Ceremony of the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich on
13 October 2006.
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Geographic Information for Sustainable Development – Global Trends and
Perspectives.
Keynote Speech at the 5th Map Asia, 30 August 2006 in Bangkok.
- About FIG’s and Surveyors Contributions to building a better world.
Keynote presentation at the International Geodetic Students Meeting,
Cracow, Poland 30 June 2006.
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Closing Remarks at the Habitat Professionals Forum's Networking Event
"Public Engagement: The Inclusive Approach" by Chair of the Habitat
Professionals Forum, Univ.-Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President, at the 3rd
World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 22 June 2006.
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Opening Remarks at the Habitat Professionals Forum's Networking Event
"Public Engagement: The Inclusive Approach" by Chair of the Habitat
Professionals Forum, Univ.-Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President, at the 3rd
World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 22 June 2006.
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Statement at the GLTN Round Table on Gendering Land Tools
by FIG President Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, at the 3rd World
Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 21 June 2006.
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FIG Statement at the Global Land Tools Network (GLTN) - Networking Event
at the 3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 20 June 2006.
- From secure tenure towards urban and rural land management - about
FIG’s role serving the needs of politics and societies. Presentation at
the UNECE WPLA Workshop on Institutional Framework for Securing Real
Property Rights in Tbilisi, Georgia 11 May 2006
- Zur
Zukunft der Geodäsie aus globaler Perspektive. Grußwortadresse zum 9.
Österreichischen Geodätentag 2006 am 03. Mai 2006 in Krems
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Surveyors Contributions to Science and Society. Welcome address at
GEOFORUM 2006, Lviv/Javoriv; Ukraine, 6 April 2006
- Closing remarks at the 5th FIG Regional Conference in Accra, Ghana.
10th March 2006.
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Opening Address at the 5th FIG Regional Conference in Accra, Ghana. 8
March 2006.
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About Surveyors’ Commitment, Role and Education for Society and
Sustainable Development. Keynote Address at the Opening Ceremony of
the 8th SEASC 2005 on 22 November 2005 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Darussalam
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Closing Remarks. Closing Ceremony of the 8th SEASC 2005 in Brunei
Darussalam, 25 November 2005
- Building Modern Land Administration Systems in Developed Economies –
Aspects and Experiences from Germany. Presentation at the Expert Group
Meeting “Incorporating Sustainable Objectives into ICT, Enabled Land
Administration Systems”, Melbourne, Australia, 9–11 November 2005
- About the Identity, Sociopolitical Role and Technical Tasks of
Surveyors on the National and International Stage. Keynote Speech at the
43rd National Conference of Consiglio Nazionale Geometri - New horizons of
the profession: Guarantees for the society in evolution, Palermo, Italy
17-22 October 2005
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Opening Speech at the 43rd National Conference of Consiglio Nazionale
Geometri, Palermo, Italy 18 October 2005
- The
resources of rural areas. A plea for sustainable land management and an
active civil society.
Abstract of Presentation at the 5th European Congress on Village Renewal,
St. Pölten, Austria, 21 September 2005
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About the need of centres of capacity building in urban and rural
development. Presentation of President Holger Magel, Chair of the
Steering Committee of the Habitat Professionals Forum at the Habitat
Professionals Forum Session at the XXII Congress of UIA in Istanbul,
Turkey, 5 July 2005.
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Surveyors should look after their identity. Address by President
Holger Magel at the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Polish Head
Office of Geodesy and Cartography (GUGIK), Warsaw, Poland, 23 June 2005.
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Conference Summary. Closing Speech by FIG President, Univ.-Prof.
Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel at the FIG Working Week and the 8th GSDI Conference
Cairo, Egypt, 21 April 2005
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From Pharaohs to Geoinformatics – Shaping the Change. Opening Speech
by FIG President, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel at the FIG Working
Week and the 8th GSDI Conference Cairo, Egypt, 17 April 2005
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Vermessung urbi et orbi – Gedanken über glokale Geodäten.
Festansprache von FIG Präsident Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel zum 50.
Geburtstag von FIG-Vizepräsident Dr.-Ing. Andreas Drees.
Münster/Westfalen, Germany, 19 March 2005
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Surveyors and Politics – the Need for Dialogue. FIG Monthly Article,
January 2005 based on the purely orally given lecture at the RICS as the
“Christmas Lecture” of the Geomatics Faculty, December 2, 2004.
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Memorandum of Understanding between the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs
(OOSA) and FIG. Speech by Prof. Holger Magel, President of FIG at the
signing ceremony in Vienna, December 13, 2004
- New
Challenges to Education in Geodesy and Geoinformation. Presentation
held at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering of the University of
Ljubljana, October 1, 2004.
Surveying the Future – Contributions to Economic, Environmental and Social
Development in Urban and Rural Areas, Opening keynote address at the
3rd FIG Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Jakarta October 4,
2004
- Surveying the Future – Contributions to Economic, Environmental and
Social Development, Closing address, recommendations and the Jakarta
Statement at the 3rd FIG Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific,
Jakarta October 6, 2004
- FIG
Meets the Arab World of Surveyors. Opening Keynote Address at the 2nd
International Scientific Conference in Beirut, Lebanon, 21 September 2004.
- Closing Speech and Conclusions of the FIG Working Week 2004. Closing
address at the FIG working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece 27 May 2004.
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Breathing the Olympic Spirit - The Mission of FIG in the 21st Century.
Opening speech at the FIG Working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece, 23 May
2004.
- Greeting
to the Ingenieurvermessung 2004 - 14th International Conference on
Engineering Surveying. 15-19 March, Zürich, Switzerland
- Land Policy and Land Administration - A Challenge for Surveyors.
Visions and Experiences in Germany. Keynote presentation at the Annual
Surveying Congress of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors, DdL,
31 January 2004
- Welcome Address at the Annual Surveying Congress of the Danish
Association of Chartered Surveyors, DdL, 30 January 2004
- The FIG Agenda - Some Remarks and Insights. Welcome Address at the
Annual Surveying Congress of the Danish Association of Chartered
Surveyors, DdL, 31 January 2004
- Handouts of slides as .pdf-file
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Urban-Rural-Interrelationship for Sustainable Development. FIG
President Professor Dr-Ing. Holger Magel. Keynote speech at the Opening
Ceremony of the 2nd FIG Regional Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, 2nd
December 2003
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Conclusions and FIG-Responses of the 2nd FIG Regional Conference
“Urban-Rural Interrelationship for Sustainable Environment”. Prof.
Holger Magel, FIG President’s Closing Speech, Marrakech, 2-5 December 2003
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Spatial Information Management for Sustainable Development. Public
Lecture. Surveyors Week 2003, October 26-31, 2003,Kingston, Jamaica. (Day
of lecture: October 30, 2003)
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Shaping the Change: Visions on surveying and surveyors in the new century.
Lecture at the University of Technology. Surveyors Week 2003, October
26-31, 2003,Kingston, Jamaica. (Day of lecture: October 29, 2003
- An
Obligation to Say What We Think. Interview at the GIM International,
August 2003
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Bridging the Gap: About Integrating Survey and GIS. Opening Speech at
the ESRI “Survey and GIS Summit - Bridging the Gap 2003”, San Diego, CA,
USA, 6 July, 2003
FIG
Article of the Month - August 2003
- About
Surveyor's Contribution to a Free and Vital Society and Economy,
Opening Speech at UN/ECE Committee on Human Settlements WPLA Workshop,
Athens, Greece, May 29, 2003
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About the Future of Cities, Speech ob behalf of the Habitat
Professionals Forum and FIG at a Parallel event during the 19th Session of
the UN-HABITAT Governing Council, Nairobi, Kenya, May 9, 2003
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Opening Speech at the FIG Working Week and 125th Anniversary in Paris,
April 13, 2003
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Land Policy and Land Management in Germany, Public lecture at The
University of Melbourne, 6 February, 2003
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Address at the FIG Handover during the Intergeo 2002 in Frankfurt 16
October 2002 - in German
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Ressource Architektur - Perspektivenund Positionen aus der Sicht der
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). Contribution to the
Closing Plenary "Perspectives and Visions" of the XXI International
Congress of UIA, organised by the International Union of Architects,
Berlin, Germany, 26 July 2002
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Sustainable Land Development and Land Management in Urban and Rural Areas
- About Surveyors' Contribution to Building a Better World. Keynote
Presentation at the International Conference on Spatial Information
Management for Sustainable Development, Nairobi, Kenya 2-5 October 2001,
organised by FIG, ISK and UNCHS(Habitat)
- Welcome
Address at the International Conference on Spatial Information Management
for Sustainable Development, Nairobi, Kenya, 2 October 2001, organised
by FIG, ISK and UNCHS(Habitat)
- Closing
Address and Conclusions at the International Conference on Spatial
Information Management for Sustainable Development, Nairobi, Kenya, 4
October 2001, organised by FIG, ISK and UNCHS(Habitat)
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Grußwort zur 200-Jahr Feier der Bayerischen Vermessungsverwaltung. 20
June 2001, Munich, Germany
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Access to Land and Security of Tenure as a Condition for Sustainable Human
Development. Keynote introduction at the Discussion of the Global
Campaign for Secure Tenure organized by the Habitat Professionals Forum.
The United Nations Special Session for an overall review and appraisal of
the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, New York, USA, 6 June 2001.
- Conference
résumé and presentation of the Potsdam Declaration rural 21“.
(Veröffentlichung in: Tagungsband/Conference Volume rural 21. Hrsg.:
Bundesministerium für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft,
Bonn, 2001, S. 63 – 77.)
- Surveying and
Politics - A Relationship of Mutual Benefit. Keynote address at the
Plenary Session "Visions on Surveying" at the International Conference
"New Technology for a New Century", FIG Working Week, 6-11 May 2001,
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Columns of President Holger Magel
Geoinformatics
GIM International
Other columns and Interviews
Contacts
President Magel can be contacted either through the FIG
permanent office in Copenhagen or his private address.
FIG Office
International Federation of Surveyors
Kalvebod Brygge 31-33
DK-1780 Copenhagen V
DENMARK
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel +45 3886 1081
Fax +45 3886 0252
Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel
FIG President
Director of Institute of Geodesy, GIS and Land Management
Technische Universität München
Center of Land Management
and Land Tenure
Arcisstrasse 21
D-80290 München
Germany
Tel. + 49 89 289 22535
Fax + 49 89 289 23933
Email:
[email protected]
12 March 2003 - updated 28 December
2006
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