Jed Sundwall

Jed is passionate about using the Internet and shared data to improve the quality of governance throughout the world. Jed has over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of data, product development, cloud computing, economics, and policy. Before joining Radiant Earth, he created various data sharing and sustainability initiatives at Amazon, including the Amazon Web Services Open Data Program, which makes over 100 petabytes of data available for analysis in the cloud. He has helped create patterns of efficient data sharing that have been adopted by USGS, NASA, Geosciences Australia, Esri, and the Brazilian Space Agency. He serves on the Board of Directors of NatureServe and has a master’s degree in foreign policy from the University of California in San Diego.