Maurice Barbieri was graduated in 1986 as Dipl. Kulturingenieur at the Polytechnic School of Zurich (ETH). After passing the Surveyor’s Federal State exam in 1988, he became Publicly Appointed Surveyor. He owns the companies Géodétec (Surveying office) and SIT-Conseil (GIS office). His companies are active in Switzerland and abroad.
He was President of IGS (Ingenieur-Geometer Schweiz, Surveyors’ Association of Switzerland) between 2009 and 2015. In 2010, he was elected Chair of CLGE / IG PARLS (Interest Group of Publicly Appointed Surveyors of the European Council of Surveyors) and then President of the CLGE between 2014 and 2020 (now Project Director).
Since 2011, he is vice-President of SOGI Switzerland (Swiss GI Association) and in charge of the International coordination. Since then, he has been representing SOGI Switzerland in EUROGI.
He is married and has four children, and in his free time he enjoys cooking, wine and cigars and practices skiing and basketball.