Benjamin Lewis

Senior GIS Specialist, Center for Geographic Analysis

Before joining Harvard in 2007, Mr. Lewis was a project manager with Advanced Technology Solutions of Pennsylvania where he lead the company  in adopting platform independent approaches to Geographic Information  Systems(GIS) development. Ben studied Chinese at the University of  Wisconsin and has a Masters in Planning from the University of  Pennsylvania. After Penn, Ben worked at the U.C Berkeley GIS Lab,  managed the GIS group for the transportation engineering firm McCormick  Taylor, and coordinated the Land Acquisition Mapping System for the  South Florida Water Management District. Ben is especially interested in technologies that lower the barrier to GIS access.