Arnold Bregt (1959) has a Doctors (1992) degree from Wageningen University.
In 1998 he became halftime professor in Geo-information science at the Wageningen University, followed by a fulltime position in 2002.
In 2001 he was appointed as guest professor at the Huazhong University in Wuhan, China. Through his work he has been involved in international projects, consulting missions and lecturing in countries, like: China, Indonesia, Kenya, Philippines, Vietnam and Cameroon, Japan.
In the period 1993-1994 he was a visiting scientist for about a year at National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences in Tsukuba, Japan.
He wrote around 250 publications on spatial statistics in soil science, spatial data uncertainty, spatial-temporal modelling, spatial data infrastructures and the application of geo-information science in the natural resources domain. His current research interests are Spatial data infrastructures, Land use modelling and spatial thinking. The last years he was and is strongly involved in a number of projects and activities concerning the development of the Spatial data infrastructures (SDI). He was one of the initiators and project leaders of the Dutch Clearinghouse for geo-information. Within Europe he has been involved in a number of working groups related to SDI developments. In the INSPIRE (The INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe) initiative of the EU-commission he was chairman of the Impact analysis working group. He was also one of the initiators of the Research programme "Space for geo-information", which was granted a subsidy of 20 million euro in 2003.
In 2010 he was appointed as programme leader for the "sustainable green and blue environment" research programme.