Christian Carlson


Christian Carlson is the director of state, local, and provincial government sales at Esri. He has witnessed waves of GIS-powered digital transformation over his 20 years at Esri and is excited to see what users do with the latest enterprise-scale tools. Christian has worked with many of Esri’s largest customers from Fortune 500 private-sector utilities and environmental firms to large municipal and regional governments. His expertise in strategic deployment of GIS has helped those organizations transform their operations to better serve citizens and customers while improving efficiency, transparency, and cross-departmental collaboration. He earned undergraduate degrees in economics and geography at the University of Colorado Boulder and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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