Tibor Tenke

After graduating from university, he worked as a lecturer at the Executive Committee of the Budapest Metropolitan Council between 1978 and 1981, and then as a responsible planner and department head at the Regional Planning Office of the Institute of Urban Planning and Planning between 1982 and 1986. During this time, he is credited with developing the Experimental Environmental Geospatial Information System.

In 1986, as a department head at the Systems Analysis Office of the National Technical Development Committee (OMFB), he was responsible for the design support system of the Budapest General Development Plan and the development of the study establishing the Resort Register.

In 1988, as the director of the System Analysis Economic Working Group (REND), his most important works were: the development of the area analysis model for the Southern Railway Station and its Surroundings (1988), project management of the Budapest Public Safety Information System and the Regional Decision Support System of the Ministry of the Interior (1988-89), participation in the preparation of the Vienna-Budapest World Exhibition (1988).

Between 1989 and 1998, he was the technical director of GEOMETRIA Térinformatikai Rendszerház Kft., and then from 1999, its managing director, where he was also responsible for international relations in addition to managing the company's management and electrical industry customers.

He actively participated in the professional organization of the Economic Society and was a member of the board of trustees of HUNGIS, the Hungarian Foundation for Geographic Information.

He has also participated in postgraduate training abroad, such as the Midwest University Consortium leadership training course, the USAID/PIED program (SME Development/Management and Application in the GIS Industry), and the Oxford Brookes University DMS leadership training course.

For his work, the National Institute of Hungarian Studies awarded him the Kalmár Prize in 2007.