Anna Nguno
Secretary-General, Sub-commission for Africa Maps, Commission for the Geological Map of the World @
Bio
Mrs. Anna Nguno is a Deputy Director at the Geological Survey of Namibia (GSN), Ministry of Mines and Energy. She obtained her Master of Science in Geology and Mineralogy from the University of Helsinki/Finland in 1998. For the past 22 years, Mrs. Nguno has been working as a geologist in various positions at GSN. Her work experience includes but is not limited to coordinating geological mapping and research in collaboration with local and international research institutions and researchers as well as compilation of Geological maps, geoscience data management & GIS and Remote Sensing. At the local and international level, Mrs. Nguno served in various committee and technical working groups. She is currently a; • Secretary-General, Sub-commission for Africa Maps, Commission for the Geological Map • Geological Society of Africa, Councillor for Southern Africa, • Geoscience Council of Namibia, President, • Member of the IUGS Nominating Committee for the term 2020-2024 • AU- African Mineral and Energy Resources Classification and Management System (AMREC / UNFC- AMREC), Technical Working Group; • Member of the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) Advisory Committee for the Bachelor of Geoinformation Technology programme, • Trustees of Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN). In the past, Mrs. Nguno served in various committee and technical working groups that include: • Committee member of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) of Namibia • Africa Union Commission (AUC) Geological and Mineral Information System (GMIS) Strategy -Technical Working Group (TWG); • Namibia Planning Advisory Board (NAMPAB) member, • Executive committee member of the Geoscience Information Consortium (GIC); • Organisation of African Geological Surveys (OAGS) executive committee member (Past-President), • Committee member of the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI), which is a Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) • Member, OneGeology (Global) Technical Working Group; • Member, Faculty of Science Advisory Board, University of Namibia. • Member, Regional Agricultural and Environment Innovations Network-Africa (RAEIN-Africa), which is a Southern African Network organisation promoting participatory development of appropriate science and technology for sustainable management of environmental and agricultural production systems; PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • Geological Society of Africa • Geological Society of Namibia • Geoscience Council of Namibia • African Association of Women in Geosciences (AAGW) • Southern African Society for Quaternary Research (SASQUA) / NQUA-SACCOM • GIRAF-Geoscience Information in Africa • Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI), which is a Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).