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]