David Maguire
David John Maguire is a British-American academic and IT executive currently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. Formerly he was the Vice-Chancellor of the Universities of Dundee, Greenwich and Sussex, and a senior executive at Esri Inc, California for 13 years.
Early life
Maguire was born in 1958 in Lancaster, Lancashire and educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School. He studied biology and geography at the University of Exeter, graduating in 1979, and completed a PhD in geography at the University of Bristol in 1983.Career
The main body of Maguire’s career has been spent working in the field of Geographic Information Systems both in academia and at Esri in the UK and US. His main contributions have been: lead editor of the major two volume definitive history of the field Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications ; the four editions of the leading student text Geographic Information Science and Systems and as contributor to the development of the Esri product strategy including ArcGIS 8, 9 and 10.Maguire has served on several boards including as Chair of , from 2015-21.
He led the national review of Technology Enhanced Learning during Covid that resulted in the report Learning and Teaching Reimagined: a new dawn for higher education?.
He has served as a Vice-Chancellor for over 10 years, mainly at the University of Greenwich. More recently he has had briefer spells as Vice-Chancellor at the Universities of Dundee, Sussex and, currently UEA.