Keynote Speakers
Diane DUMASHIE FIG President Elect 2023-2026 |
Renowned as a client lead, Diane is an adaptive multi—skilled land economist specialising in negotiating and delivering complex, multi stakeholder projects. She is focused, dynamic, independent and inspirational in the way she helps clients to hold difficult conversations and is adept at enabling, facilitating and bringing people and resources together to achieve organisational objectives. Stakeholder smart her project delivery seeks a customer focused approach to broker collaborative working between key partners to achieve shared objectives. She leads and innovates to manage change, energises and resolves complex issues in the areas of land management, land administration, gender rights, land and coastal property regeneration to deliver successful outcomes. As a professional with a Royal chartered status, operating in the land economy her aim is to improve people’s livelihoods. Diane has helped government’s donor agency private sector professionals working across the commonwealth countries this is evidenced by key areas of specialism... "My origins lie in land economics and principles of good governance working for the public and private sector; specifically, across the Commonwealth." |
 Ionut SAVOIU Secretary of State in the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure |
Mr. Ionut Savoiu is State Secretary at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure since January 2022. Between 2012 and 2016 Mr. Savoiu was member of The Romanian Parliament – Vice-president of IT&C Commission. From 2005 to 2012, he was country managing director of Blom Romania and international consultant in Blom International. During the Blom Romania period, Ionut Savoiu was in charge of business development, sales and projects in Romania and countries in East Europe. Further Ionut was responsible of mapping and GIS production for Blom Group. In 2004, he was appointed as Deputy General Manager of National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (NACLR), Romania. He is honorary advisor to the Board of the Romanian Surveyors Association. Ionut Savoiu graduated from Faculty of Geodesy – Technical University for Construction Bucharest, Romania. His diploma was prepared at Institute for Photogrammetry – Hannover University, Germany. He holds an MBA at IEDC - School of management Bled, Slovenia. Between December 2018 and January 2022 Ionut Savoiu was the President of UGR. |
 Peter ACHE Chair of FIG Commission 9 |
Peter Ache is a well-connected expert in real estate valuation and market observation, both in Germany and internationally. As editor-in-chief of the German Property Market Report and the head of national and international working groups, he is committed to establishing uniform and meaningful valuation standards. Ache is a member of a research consortium for a project by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs, and Spatial Development on the topic of "Transparency in the Real Estate Market." Since 1 January 2023, Ache has been the chair of the Commission on "Valuation and the Management of Real Estate" of the globally active International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) based in Copenhagen. |
 Prof.Habil.PhD.eng.Hans NEUNER TU WIEN |
Hans Neuner studied Geodesy at the Technical University of Civil Engineering in Bucharest. After his master graduation, he joined the Geodetic Institute in Hanover, where he was a PhD-student of Prof. Pelzer and Prof. Kutterer. He received the Dr.-Ing. from the University of Hanover in 2007 for the thesis “Modelling and analysis of non-stationary deformation processes” under the supervision of Prof. Kutterer. For further six years he was a PostDoc at the Geodetic Institute. In October 2013 he was temporary appointed as a professor for Engineering Geodesy at TU Wien. In 2017 he was appointed as a permanent professor for Engineering Geodesy at TU Wien. Hans Neuner co-authored the textbook “Processing of geodetic monitoring measurements”. His research interests are space continuous deformation measurements and analysis, robot-based kinematic measuring systems and industrial measuring techniques. |
 Jean-Yves PIRLOT CLGE General Director |
After a military education, Jean-Yves Pirlot, studied land surveying and specialised with masters in Geomatics, Mapping and Remote Sensing as well as Public Management. He served as Head of the Geomatics department at the Infrastructure Division of the Belgian General Staff. As a young Colonel he got the unique opportunity to become Deputy Director General of the Belgian Mapping Agency. Since his retirement from this position in 2018, he's owner of a consulting company active in his diverse areas of expertise. In parallel to his career he was permanently involved in Surveying associations at the national, European and Worldwide level. Currently he is President of the Belgian Union of Land Surveyors and Director General of CLGE, the Council of European Geodetic Surveyors. |