David, faculty member at Statistics.com The Institute for Statistics Education and former professor of geography at Birkbeck College in the University of London is now retired.  He was one of the team that established the Journal of Geography in Higher Education and in 2006 received recognition from the USUniversity Consortium for Geographic Information Science as Educator of the Year. In 1999 his work in establishing its continuing professional development scheme led to the award of the UK Association for Geographic Information’s Past President’s Prize.  He has experience of teaching GIS&T in universities in the UK, Canada, New Zealand and the USA.  With David O’Sullivan he is co-author of Geographic Information Analysis, also published by Wiley.