Brian Lees

Brian Lees (born Scotland, 1944; Educated Royal High School, Edinburgh) is an Australian geographer and was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

Lees started off as Regional Editor for the Western Pacific in 1997 and took over as Editor-in-Chief in 2007. He handed over to Professor May Yuan in January 2017. He is an emeritus professor at the University of New South Wales, School of Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Sciences, where he was appointed professor of geography in February 2006.

Career Lees has been an RAF officer (Flight Navigator)

Awards The Australasian Institute of Spatial Information Science and Technology (AISIST) Prize in recognition of a “substantial contribution to the study of the science of Urban and Regional Information Systems”, 1997. The Land Victoria Fellowship, University of Melbourne, 1999. The Eminent Individual Award; Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (AURISA) 1999. Fellow of the Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (AURISA) 2003. Fellow of the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) 2004. Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers 2009.