David Oesch studied geography and history at University of North Carolina at Greensboro and University of Bern. He completed his masters studies in geography in the meteorology and climatology on remote sensing methods. During his PhD studies initialized operational processing do ingest satellite data for data assimilation process in numerical weather forecast models. For several years he was responsible as service manager at Syngenta for agrarmeteorology and climatology products. Since 2008 he holds the position as a Senior Project Manager for Federal Geodata Data Infrastructure at swisstopo and set up and operates the geo.admin.ch platform.