Rob Varley

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Rob Varley

Rob Varley was appointed chief executive of the Met Office in 2014.[1] He stepped down in 2018.[2] Varley was First Vice President of the World Meteorological Organization until 24 April 2018.[3]

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]

Varley 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]

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