Rob Varley

Rob Varley was appointed chief executive of the Met Office in 2014.[1] He was sacked on 5 March 2018 over "questions of governance and management".[2]

Rob Varley

He was educated at Cheltenham Bournside School and graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in Environmental Sciences in 1983.[3] Varley was the first CEO to be promoted from within the Met Office since its founding in 1854.[4] 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.[5] He is a Chartered Meteorologist of the Royal Meteorological Society[6] and Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors.[7] In 2012 he was named as the Institute of Directors' Director of the Year (Public and Third Sectors).[8]

Rob was Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 2013 to 2014,[9] President of EUMETNET from 2015 to 2018 [10] and First Vice President of the World Meteorological Organisation from 2017 to 2018.[11]

References
  1. "Executive". Met Office. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. "Met Office chief executive sacked amid questions over 'governance and management'".
  3. "After 31 years with the Met Office, Chartered Director Rob Varley is to be the new CEO". Chartered Director. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  4. "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.
  5. "LinkedIn profile for Rob Varley".
  6. "Royal Meteorological Society News, 8 July 2014".
  7. "Institute of Directors: Chartered Director Alumni".
  8. "Royal Meteorological Society News, 8 July 2014".
  9. "Royal Meteorological Society News, 8 July 2014".
  10. "LinkedIn profile for Rob Varley".
  11. "WMO press release 30 November 2017".
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