Luc St-Pierre is Chief of the Space Applications Section at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and his managing the activities of the Programme on Space Applications and the implementation of Access to Space for All. From 2005 to 2012 he was Senior Geographic Information Systems Officer with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva and Programme Officer with the Regional Seas Programme of the UN Environment Programme in the Caribbean from 2000 to 2005. Prior to joining the UN, he acted during ten years as specialist in the management of geospatial information on various projects with government authorities in Africa, Asia and in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2006, he graduated from the University of London with a M.Sc. in Environmental Economics, following a first M.Sc. in Geography in 1985 from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada. Mr. St-Pierre is from Québec in Canada.