Rob Varley was appointed chief executive of the Met Office in 2014.[1] He stepped down in 2018.[2] Rob was First Vice President of the World Meteorological Organization until 24 April 2018.[3]
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He was educated at Cheltenham Bournside School and graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in Environmental Sciences in 1983.[4] Varley was the first CEO to be promoted from within the Met Office since its founding in 1854.[5] He holds a postgraduate diploma in Management from the University of Reading (2001) and a diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors (2010). He received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East Anglia in 2016.[6] He is a Chartered Meteorologist of the Royal Meteorological Society[7] and Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors.[8] In 2012 he was named as the Institute of Directors' Director of the Year (Public and Third Sectors).[9]
Rob was Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 2013 to 2014,[10] President of EUMETNET from 2015 to 2018 [11] and First Vice President of the World Meteorological Organisation from 2017 to 2018.[12]
References edit
- ^ "Executive". Met Office. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ "PressOffice". Met Office. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ "La argentina Celeste Saulo fue designada 1° Vicepresidente de la Organización Meteorológica Mundial" [The Argentine Celeste Saula Designated 1st Vice President of the World Meteorological Organization] (in Spanish). Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ^ "After 31 years with the Met Office, Chartered Director Rob Varley is to be the new CEO". Chartered Director. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ "Interview: Met Office chief executive Rob Varley on the BBC, climate change – and the risks of public sector pay restraint". Civil Service World. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
- ^ "LinkedIn profile for Rob Varley".
- ^ "Royal Meteorological Society News, 8 July 2014".
- ^ "Institute of Directors: Chartered Director Alumni".
- ^ "Royal Meteorological Society News, 8 July 2014".
- ^ "Royal Meteorological Society News, 8 July 2014".
- ^ "LinkedIn profile for Rob Varley". [dead link]
- ^ "WMO press release 30 November 2017". 29 November 2017. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023.