Alexander James Kent (born 24 August 1977) is a British cartographer, geographer and academic, currently serving as Vice President of the International Cartographic Association. He leads the Coastal Connections Project for World Monuments Fund and English Heritage and is honorary Reader in Cartography and Geographical Information Science at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) and also a senior research associate of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford.
From 2015 to 2017, Kent served as president of the British Cartographic Society and has held fellowships of the Royal Geographical Society since 2006 and of the British Cartographic Society since 2002.
