David John Maguire FRGS (born 22 August 1958) is a British-American academic and IT executive currently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (UEA).
[1][2][3][4][5] 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.
[7] His main contributions have been: lead editor of the major two volume definitive history of the field Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications[8] (edited with Michael Goodchild and David Rhind in 1991); the four editions of the leading student text Geographic Information Science and Systems[9] (co-authored with Paul Longley, Michael Goodchild and David Rhind, Fourth Edition 2015) and as contributor to the development of the Esri product strategy (along with Jack Dangermond, Scott Morehouse and Clint Brown) including ArcGIS 8, 9 and 10.
[12] More recently he has had briefer spells as Vice-Chancellor at the Universities of Dundee,[13] Sussex[14] and, currently UEA.
He received a Doctor honoris causa from the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest in 2009.