Ryan Lanclos

Ryan Lanclos is Esri’s Director of National Government and Public Safety Solutions and a subject matter expert on geographic information system (GIS) technology for emergency management. He helps organizations deploy GIS to improve preparedness and leads the global Disaster Response Program, which provides GIS support during disasters. A former appointed member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Advisory Council in the US, Lanclos currently serves on the International Advisory Board of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) for Japan and the XPRIZE Wildfire Advisory Board. He has also served as Missouri’s first geographic information officer (GIO), GIS advisor for the Governor’s Homeland Security Advisory Council, and Director of State and Local Government at the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation. Lanclos holds a Master of Science in Cartography and GIS from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Bachelor of Arts in Geology from Centenary College of Louisiana.