President Univ.-Prof. Dr. -Ing. Holger Magel

The FIG General Assembly elected at its meeting in Washington DC, United States in April 2002 Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel as FIG President for a four-year term of office 1.1.2003-31.12.2006

Curriculum Vitae Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel Date of birth  3 May 1944 Nationality  German Status Married - wife Ansi

Professional Career

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, born in Neuburg/Donau in 1944. After doing A-levels in 1963 studies of Geodesy at the Munich Technische Hochschule up to 1968. After first experiences with a sworn engineer's office in Graz completion of the Bavarian Traineeship, and leadership of Land Consolidation measures in Upper and Lower Bavaria.

From 1975 to 1978 position of a curator of the newly established Chair of Rural Development and Land Consolidation at the Munich Technische Universität. In 1977 obtaining the degree of a Doktor-Ingenieur about rural planning.

Acting with the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry in the Rural Development Department since 1978, in charge of building up the Bavarian Village Renewal Programme as well as establishing a new Method of Landscape and Regionalplanning within Rural Development.

Since 1 Febr. 1995 Head of the Rural Development Department and Director General of the Bavarian Administration of Rural Development.

Since 1986 lectures for geodesists, civil engineers and geographers at the Munich Bundeswehr University (up to 1990) and the Munich Technische Universität. In 1993 appointment as an honorary professor for Rural Development at the Munich Technische Universität.

President of the Bavarian Academy "Ländlicher Raum" (Rural Areas) since 1994.

Advisor of the European Commission for Rural Development in Eastern Germany in 1992/93; chairman of the German Bund-Länder Team for Village Renewal from 1984 - 1995; member of the board of the European Association for Rural Development and Village Renewal.

Chair of the working group land readjustment and land economics of the German Geodetic Commission since 2004

Acting as an expert in Eastern- and South Europe as well as in Asia and South America. More than 250 expert publications and books on land consolidation, Village renewal ,landscape planning , rural development and civil society. Many lectures at home and abroad. Member of several scientific institutions and NGO.

Vice-President (since 1999 ) and then President of the International Federation of Surveyors, 2002-2006.

Since 1 Jan. 1998 Full Professor and Director of Institute.

Presentations

• Changing FIG – Model for a Changing World. Farewell speech at the Handover Ceremony
  on 2 December 2006 in Münster, Germany.
  • Speech in English
  • Speech in German
• FIG Vision, Mission and Activities - Promoting Sustainable Development. Luncheon Address at the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS), 2 November 2006.
  • Handouts of the powerpoint presentation
• FIG President’s Welcome Address to the 50th Anniversary Celebration of WTSUM. Wuhan, China P. R., 28 October 2006.
• President Holger Magel: From Surveying to Geomatics and Land Management. About Future Perspectives of a Changing Discipline and Profession. Presentation at the 14th International Conference on Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2006) – The 21st Century’s Geoinformatics. Wuhan, China P.R., October 28-29, 2006.
  • Handouts of the powerpoint presentation
• Shaping the Change 2002-2006 – The German Period of FIG. FIG President’s Address at the Opening Ceremony of the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich on 10 October 2006.
  • in English
  • in German
• Shaping the Change - Congress Summary. Closing Address by FIG President at the Closing Ceremony of the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich on 13 October 2006.
  • slides of the presentation
• Geographic Information for Sustainable Development – Global Trends and Perspectives. Keynote Speech at the 5th Map Asia, 30 August 2006 in Bangkok.
  • Handouts of the powerpoint presentation
• About FIG’s and Surveyors Contributions to building a better world. Keynote presentation at the International Geodetic Students Meeting, Cracow, Poland 30 June 2006.
  • Handouts of the powerpoint presentation
• Closing Remarks at the Habitat Professionals Forum's Networking Event "Public Engagement: The Inclusive Approach" by Chair of the Habitat Professionals Forum, Univ.-Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President, at the 3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 22 June 2006.
• Opening Remarks at the Habitat Professionals Forum's Networking Event "Public Engagement: The Inclusive Approach" by Chair of the Habitat Professionals Forum, Univ.-Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President, at the 3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 22 June 2006.
• Statement at the GLTN Round Table on Gendering Land Tools by FIG President Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, at the 3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 21 June 2006.
• FIG Statement at the Global Land Tools Network (GLTN) - Networking Event at the 3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 20 June 2006. 
• From secure tenure towards urban and rural land management - about FIG’s role serving the needs of politics and societies. Presentation at the UNECE WPLA Workshop on Institutional Framework for Securing Real Property Rights in Tbilisi, Georgia 11 May 2006
  • Handouts of the powerpoint presentation
• Zur Zukunft der Geodäsie aus globaler Perspektive. Grußwortadresse zum 9. Österreichischen Geodätentag 2006 am 03. Mai 2006 in Krems
• Surveyors Contributions to Science and Society. Welcome address at GEOFORUM 2006, Lviv/Javoriv; Ukraine, 6 April 2006
• Closing remarks at the 5th FIG Regional Conference in Accra, Ghana. 10th March 2006.
  • Handouts of the powerpoint presentation
• Opening Address at the 5th FIG Regional Conference in Accra, Ghana. 8 March 2006.
  • Slides of the powerpoint presentation
• About Surveyors’ Commitment, Role and Education for Society and Sustainable Development. Keynote Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 8th SEASC 2005 on 22 November 2005 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
  • Handouts of the powerpoint presentation
• Closing Remarks. Closing Ceremony of the 8th SEASC 2005 in Brunei Darussalam, 25 November 2005
• Building Modern Land Administration Systems in Developed Economies – Aspects and Experiences from Germany. Presentation at the Expert Group Meeting “Incorporating Sustainable Objectives into ICT, Enabled Land Administration Systems”, Melbourne, Australia, 9–11 November 2005
  • Handouts of powerpoint presentation
• About the Identity, Sociopolitical Role and Technical Tasks of Surveyors on the National and International Stage. Keynote Speech at the 43rd National Conference of Consiglio Nazionale Geometri - New horizons of the profession: Guarantees for the society in evolution, Palermo, Italy 17-22 October 2005
  • Handouts of powerpoint presentation
• Opening Speech at the 43rd National Conference of Consiglio Nazionale Geometri, Palermo, Italy 18 October 2005
• The resources of rural areas. A plea for sustainable land management and an active civil society. Abstract of Presentation at the 5th European Congress on Village Renewal, St. Pölten, Austria, 21 September 2005
• About the need of centres of capacity building in urban and rural development. Presentation of President Holger Magel, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Habitat Professionals Forum at the Habitat Professionals Forum Session at the XXII Congress of UIA in Istanbul, Turkey, 5 July 2005.
• Surveyors should look after their identity. Address by President Holger Magel at the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Polish Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (GUGIK), Warsaw, Poland, 23 June 2005.
  • Article of the presentation and visit in the Przeglad Geodezyjny, Rok LXXVII, 2005 Nr. 9 (in Polish)
• Conference Summary. Closing Speech by FIG President, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel at the FIG Working Week and the 8th GSDI Conference Cairo, Egypt, 21 April 2005
• From Pharaohs to Geoinformatics – Shaping the Change. Opening Speech by FIG President, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel at the FIG Working Week and the 8th GSDI Conference Cairo, Egypt, 17 April 2005
• Vermessung urbi et orbi – Gedanken über glokale Geodäten. Festansprache von FIG Präsident Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel zum 50. Geburtstag von FIG-Vizepräsident Dr.-Ing. Andreas Drees. Münster/Westfalen, Germany, 19 March 2005
• Surveyors and Politics – the Need for Dialogue. FIG Monthly Article, January 2005 based on the purely orally given lecture at the RICS as the “Christmas Lecture” of the Geomatics Faculty, December 2, 2004.
• Memorandum of Understanding between the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) and FIG. Speech by Prof. Holger Magel, President of FIG at the signing ceremony in Vienna, December 13, 2004
• New Challenges to Education in Geodesy and Geoinformation. Presentation held at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering of the University of Ljubljana, October 1, 2004.
  Surveying the Future – Contributions to Economic, Environmental and Social Development in Urban and Rural Areas, Opening keynote address at the 3rd FIG Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Jakarta October 4, 2004
• Surveying the Future – Contributions to Economic, Environmental and Social Development, Closing address, recommendations and the Jakarta Statement at the 3rd FIG Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Jakarta October 6, 2004
  • Handouts of powerpoint presentation
• FIG Meets the Arab World of Surveyors. Opening Keynote Address at the 2nd International Scientific Conference in Beirut, Lebanon, 21 September 2004.
• Closing Speech and Conclusions of the FIG Working Week 2004. Closing address at the FIG working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece 27 May 2004.
  • Slides as .pdf-file
• Breathing the Olympic Spirit - The Mission of FIG in the 21st Century. Opening speech at the FIG Working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece, 23 May 2004.
  • Slides as .pdf-file
• Greeting to the Ingenieurvermessung 2004 - 14th International Conference on Engineering Surveying. 15-19 March, Zürich, Switzerland
• Land Policy and Land Administration - A Challenge for Surveyors. Visions and Experiences in Germany. Keynote presentation at the Annual Surveying Congress of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors, DdL, 31 January 2004
  • Slides as .pdf-file
• Welcome Address at the Annual Surveying Congress of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors, DdL, 30 January 2004
  • Slides as .pdf-file
• The FIG Agenda - Some Remarks and Insights. Welcome Address at the Annual Surveying Congress of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors, DdL, 31 January 2004
  • Handouts of slides as .pdf-file
• Urban-Rural-Interrelationship for Sustainable Development. FIG President Professor Dr-Ing. Holger Magel. Keynote speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 2nd FIG Regional Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, 2nd December 2003

• Conclusions and FIG-Responses of the 2nd FIG Regional Conference
  “Urban-Rural Interrelationship for Sustainable Environment”. Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President’s Closing Speech, Marrakech, 2-5 December 2003

• Spatial Information Management for Sustainable Development. Public Lecture. Surveyors Week 2003, October 26-31, 2003,Kingston, Jamaica. (Day of lecture: October 30, 2003)
• Shaping the Change: Visions on surveying and surveyors in the new century. Lecture at the University of Technology. Surveyors Week 2003, October 26-31, 2003,Kingston, Jamaica. (Day of lecture: October 29, 2003
• An Obligation to Say What We Think. Interview at the GIM International, August 2003
• Bridging the Gap: About Integrating Survey and GIS. Opening Speech at the ESRI “Survey and GIS Summit - Bridging the Gap 2003”, San Diego, CA, USA, 6 July, 2003
  FIG Article of the Month - August 2003
  • Handouts of the PowerPoint presentation
• About Surveyor's Contribution to a Free and Vital Society and Economy, Opening Speech at UN/ECE Committee on Human Settlements WPLA Workshop, Athens, Greece, May 29, 2003
• About the Future of Cities, Speech ob behalf of the Habitat Professionals Forum and FIG at a Parallel event during the 19th Session of the UN-HABITAT Governing Council, Nairobi, Kenya, May 9, 2003
• Opening Speech at the FIG Working Week and 125th Anniversary in Paris, April 13, 2003
  • PowerPoint presentation
• Land Policy and Land Management in Germany, Public lecture at The University of Melbourne, 6 February, 2003
  • Presentation slides
• Address at the FIG Handover during the Intergeo 2002 in Frankfurt 16 October 2002 - in German
• Ressource Architektur - Perspektivenund Positionen aus der Sicht der International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). Contribution to the Closing Plenary "Perspectives and Visions" of the XXI International Congress of UIA, organised by the International Union of Architects, Berlin, Germany, 26 July 2002
• Sustainable Land Development and Land Management in Urban and Rural Areas - About Surveyors' Contribution to Building a Better World. Keynote Presentation at the International Conference on Spatial Information Management for Sustainable Development, Nairobi, Kenya 2-5 October 2001, organised by FIG, ISK and UNCHS(Habitat)
• Welcome Address at the International Conference on Spatial Information Management for Sustainable Development, Nairobi, Kenya, 2 October 2001, organised by FIG, ISK and UNCHS(Habitat)
• Closing Address and Conclusions at the International Conference on Spatial Information Management for Sustainable Development, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 October 2001, organised by FIG, ISK and UNCHS(Habitat)
• Grußwort zur 200-Jahr Feier der Bayerischen Vermessungsverwaltung. 20 June 2001, Munich, Germany
  • Acrobat file (pdf-file) (16 KB)
• Access to Land and Security of Tenure as a Condition for Sustainable Human Development. Keynote introduction at the Discussion of the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure organized by the Habitat Professionals Forum. The United Nations Special Session for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, New York, USA, 6 June 2001.
  • Acrobat file (pdf-file) (27 KB)
  • Overheads (pdf-file) (17 KB)
• Conference résumé and presentation of the Potsdam Declaration rural 21“. (Veröffentlichung in: Tagungsband/Conference Volume rural 21. Hrsg.: Bundesministerium für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Bonn, 2001, S. 63 – 77.) 
  • Acrobat file (.pdf-file), English
  • German Version
• Surveying and Politics - A Relationship of Mutual Benefit. Keynote address at the Plenary Session "Visions on Surveying" at the International Conference "New Technology for a New Century", FIG Working Week, 6-11 May 2001, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Acrobat file (pdf-file) (7KB)

Columns of President Holger Magel

Geoinformatics

• December 2006: Geospatial Information Technology a Means to More Democracy. Interview with Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President

• December 2005: Committed to Africa?

• Interview - September 2005: Quo Vadis European Surveying, Geodesy and Geomatics? Interview with Prof. Holger Magel, President of FIG

• September 2005: Academics and Practitioners Bridging the Gap

• June 2005: From Pharaohs to Where?

• Viewpoint - April/May 2005: New Challenges to Education in Geodesy and Geoinformation. Master of Science Program in Land Management and Land Tenure at TU Munich. Material provided by Prof. Holger Magel and edited by Joc Triglav.

• March 2005: Where Were You When...?

• December 2004: Why Are Surveyors so Thinly Represented in the Planning Processes?

• September 2004: Strengthening the Voice of Surveying and Geospatial Information Societies

• June 2004: Survey and GIS - There Is Still a Need of Bridging the Gap

• March 2004: Politics is Such a Bad Thing - We Don't Like to Get Involved in It

GIM International

• October 2006: GIM Interviews FIG President Holger Magel: Well-Grounded Specialised Generalists

• October 2005: Insider's View: Bridging the GAP: Survey and Planning

• May 2004: Together Stronger and More Influential

Other columns and Interviews

• The role of education in surveyors' commitment to society and sustainable development. Article on CES April 2006 (Civil Engineering Surveyors, UK). Adapted from President Magel's keynoteaddress at the opening of the 8th SEASC in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam 

• The Role of Surveying is Critical. Interview on GIS Development, January 2006.

• “The role of surveying is paramount and critical”. Interview on GIS Development, January 2006, web version: http://www.gisdevelopment.net/interview/previous/ev077.htm

• For a Sustainable Future. Interview in Geospatial Today, November-December 2005

Contacts 

President Magel can be contacted either through the FIG permanent office in Copenhagen or his private address.

FIG Office
International Federation of Surveyors
Kalvebod Brygge 31-33
DK-1780 Copenhagen V
DENMARK
E-mail: FIG@fig.net  
Tel +45 3886 1081
Fax +45 3886 0252

Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel
FIG President
Director of Institute of Geodesy, GIS and Land Management
Technische Universität München
Center of Land Management and Land Tenure
Arcisstrasse 21
D-80290 München
Germany
Tel. + 49 89 289 22535
Fax + 49 89 289 23933
Email: magel@landentwicklung-muenchen.de

12 March 2003 - updated 28 December 2006