Board Member Bios
We have a small team of board members of the foundation. Here is a bit about each of them, including declarations of any other directorships and any substantial shareholdings.
- Board members are volunteers and are usually1 not getting paid by the OSM Foundation for the work they do.
- All board members are "directors" in the sense of the UK Companies Act. Even the person we designate "secretary" is not a "secretary" in the sense of the UK Companies Act.
- See the OSM Foundation board members by year on the OSM wiki.
Current Board
Brazil Singh
Brazil Singh is an advocate for open mapping, community engagement, and humanitarian open-source technology. Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, he has contributed extensively to the OpenStreetMap (OSM) ecosystem as a mapper, trainer, and leader.
Brazil’s journey in open mapping began as a YouthMappers volunteer, where he quickly grew into leadership roles. Today, he serves as a Regional Ambassador at YouthMappers, an Open Mapping Guru with the Asia Pacific Hub, and a voting member of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Brazil has trained students, led community projects, and contributed to humanitarian initiatives, including flood mapping, disaster preparedness, and safe city projects. His work reflects a deep commitment to using open data for sustainable development, education, and humanitarian response.
Beyond mapping, Brazil is also a Web developer and storyteller, passionate about creating digital tools, interactive platforms, and educational resources that make technology more accessible.
Craig Allan
Craig came out of a local government background, where as a spatial planner he received formal training in aerial photo interpretation, photogrammetry and land survey. He has used commercial GIS systems since the 80’s, starting on the simple but very effective Atlas GIS by Strategic Mapping Inc. and later moving on to the infuriating but effective ARC/INFO by ESRI. Now he's a QGIS fan and has used it supporting philanthropic work in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh.
Craig concentrates on mapping in Africa. He appreciates that putting a village on the map may enable residents to be recognised and to receive development support and humanitarian aid. Craig is also very interested in conservation and climate change, so does a lot of mapping of threatened forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in several places in Kenya, such as the Mara reserve and forests and wetlands inland of Lamu town. He also maps in north Chad because he's interested in both rock arches and the East Saharan montane xeric woodland which somehow survives on high mountains in the Sahara.
In his later working life he did less geography and demographics and turned to management doing Strategic planning, Risk management, Performance management, Budgeting and administrative tasks. Those have their uses for building and managing organisations, and he now deploys those skills in the interest of the OSMF and the broader OSM community.
Daniela (Dani) Waltersdorfer Jimenez
Daniela Waltersdorfer, also known as Dani is from Lima, Peru, and also spent part of her childhood in Bogota, Colombia, and in a suburb of Miami in the U.S. After other moves and adventures, she now resides in Washington, D.C. , U.S. As a professional, she works in the Transportation Industry, where she helps many transportation agencies with their transit, logistics, supply-chain, and asset management needs in the form of digital geospatial solutions. She’s a big advocate for proper accessibility and mobility for people and goods. She’s been a leader of Maptime Boston and Maptime Miami, where (along with her awesome co-leads) provided GIS and mapping education to the local communities, led mapathons, and hosted a space for everything map-related in our urban areas.
Her first edit on OSM was for a HOTOSM task in Nepal. This is when she learned about the OSM project and community. Dani was fascinated by the involvement and logistics of the OSM community; there were people from all over the world, people who will probably never meet in person, who are also working on this task to help the people in Nepal and the humanitarian organizations sending relief. “I remember telling my grandfather about OSM and sharing this amazing idea of a community working together to complete the map. He was a pilot in the Peruvian Air Force who spent a lot of time surveying and mapping the Amazon Region in Peru, so he certainly understood my fascination”.
Dani is a volunteer-mapper and is passionate about growing the OSM communities. Feel free to contact her whenever! She is fluent in English and Spanish.
Loves: Family, friends, dogs, beaches, long walks, Pilates, trains.
Hates: Snails, smog, pollen, misogyny.
Héctor Ochoa Ortiz
Héctor started mapping in 2011, although he did not start actively contributing until 2015. In 2016, he joined Mapeado Colaborativo, the newly formed local community in his hometown of Zaragoza, Spain, where he began attending and organizing numerous community events.
With a background in Computer Engineering, his love for OpenStreetMap led him to study Cartography for his master’s, where he met people from all over the world. After several years moving around different countries, he currently resides in Italy, where he is a PhD student at the University of Camerino.
His research is part of the “ODECO” project, where his primary research focuses on the role of commercial companies in Open Data, especially around OSM. He also contributes to other research lines in collaboration with different researchers from the project, including the study of interactions in Open Data interfaces like the HOT Tasking Manager. Within the project, he is doing research stays in different organizations: University of Zaragoza (May-July 2024), Regione Marche (Nov-Dec 2024), and TomTom (May-Aug 2025).
Héctor is passionate about transportation, particularly regarding transportation networks and urban mobility, and enjoys traveling to discover the history, culture, and food of new places.
Laura Mugeha
Laura is a Geospatial engineer working at the intersection of open data, free and open-source software, and sustainable development. With a commitment to building for impact, she harnesses the power of communities and technology to drive positive change. Currently, Laura is an Implementation Officer at Ushahidi, mainly offering technical support and leading capacity building for the African Union Civic Tech Fund (AUCTF 2.0).
In addition to her professional work, Laura is an active volunteer and enjoys giving back to tech communities. She co-founded OSM Kenya and served as the lead community coordinator from its inception until 2022, advocating for the local adoption of open mapping practices. For the past four years, Laura has also been a YouthMappers regional ambassador, supporting student-led and faculty-mentored university clubs in East and Central Africa.
Maurizio Napolitano
Maurizio Napolitano (also known as "napo") is from Italy. Despite a sociology background, he is a researcher in computer science at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento, where he leads the Digital Commons Lab. His work focuses on open data, open-source software, and AI ethics, with an emphasis on promoting digital commons like OpenStreetMap (OSM).
An activist in the open-source movement for over 25 years, Maurizio has contributed to OpenStreetMap through scientific research, organization of conferences, public speaking (including three TEDx talks), and the creation of the Italian OSM Chapter within Wikimedia Italia. He teaches Geospatial Analysis in the Master in Data Science program at the University of Trento and is also actively engaged as a volleyball coach.
Working at Fondazione Bruno Kessler and leading the Digital Commons Lab unit.
Roland Olbricht
Roland Olbricht came to OSM in 2008. Since 2011 he maintains and operates the Overpass API independent of this daytime job. Before Covid, he has been participant of multiple local meet-ups. He makes software for public transit as a software developer for the company MENTZ GmbH.
1 Exception: 2021/resolution 19, tied to the task of resolving the blockage of PayPal and TransferWise accounts at that point.