Frank Haugan

Frank Haugan is a senior geospatial and digital transformation leader with more than 25 years of experience supporting public-sector institutions and international development partners with strategy-to-implementation delivery. Based in Norway, he leads a governance-led geospatial and digital transformation consultancy focused on turning policy intent into operational capability through clear decision structures, standards-based architectures, procurement-ready specifications, and sustainable adoption.

Frank is the Founder and CEO of Lade Agenda AS, a software-independent consultancy specialising in geospatial infrastructures and governance, National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI), GIS and enterprise architecture, addressing systems, geodetic reference systems and base mapping, standardisation, and capacity building. His delivery model is pragmatic and implementation-oriented: aligning stakeholders early, establishing decision rights and roles (including RACI), and embedding quality assurance, reporting, and risk control throughout the engagement.

Before founding Lade Agenda, he held senior leadership roles at the Geological Survey of Norway, including Geomatics and IT Director and Quality Manager. This provides first-hand experience from both “client/owner” and “delivery” perspectives, an advantage when designing solutions that must be feasible to procure, operate, and scale.

Within Global Air Drones, Frank strengthens the partnership’s ability to deliver trusted, enterprise-ready UAV and geospatial outputs by ensuring the end-to-end chain is robust: requirements and use-case definition, target architecture and interoperability, quality and metadata, and integration into client workflows and geospatial infrastructures. His work aligns with international good practice and standards (including ISO 191xx and OGC standards, and the UN-GGIM/World Bank Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF)), and he is experienced in multi-stakeholder contexts and international financial institution (IFI)-funded programmes, including assignments supported by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

Frank’s focus areas in the partnership include strengthening governance and operating models that help clients move from “projects” to sustainable services, clarifying roles, responsibilities, workflows, and capability-building for geospatial infrastructures such as NSDI and SDIs; defining data specifications and delivery assurance through clear quality requirements, acceptance criteria, metadata, and traceable QA/QC routines aligned with ISO and OGC practice; advancing interoperability and modelling by establishing information models and integration patterns that support Digital Twins and analytics-ready outputs (e.g., CityGML and the Land Administration Domain Model); and providing client-facing delivery leadership by translating complex technical capability into decision-ready proposals, scope definitions, and implementation Goroadmaps that stakeholders can adopt.