Ray Wyatt initially worked in local and regional government, consultancy, manufacturing, market research and commerce. He then became an academic at Melbourne University, Australia, where for exactly 30 years he researched, wrote planning software, consulted, and taught analytical planning and GIS science. Along the way he taught university courses in England, Wales, USA, Italy and Brazil, Ray has written 151 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and essays (74 refereed). He has also produced about 10 major consultant reports, built 4 serious software packages, conducted 17 community workshops, and delivered 55 other presentations around the world. He jointly founded and edited 2 refereed journals - Urban Policy & Research and Applied GIS; he has served on the editorial boards of several other journals and he has refereed texts for about 32 publishers. Ray is a past President of the International Board of Directors for the Computation in Urban Planning & Urban Management (CUPUM) series of conferences, and he has written 3 single-author textbooks: 1. Intelligent Planning (1989, London, Unwin Hyman) 2. Computer-aided Policy Making (1999, London, Routledge) 3. Plan Prediction (2017, Cham, Switzerland, Springer)