First Female Chief Executive at the Met Office

The Met Office has announced its first female Chief Executive, Professor Penelope Endersby. Professor Endersby will be starting her new post at the Met Office in December 2018.

In her previous roles, she led the Cyber and Information Systems Division at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and was Acting Chief Technical Officer as well as a Non-Exec Director of Ploughshare Innovations, the MOD’s technology transfer organisation. In her career she has delivered life-saving science for the UK’s defence and security users, with her experience ranging from high performance computing, complex modelling and simulation, space systems and weather and geospatial intelligence and analytics.

In a quote given to the Met Office press team, Professor Endersby stated, “I am absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to lead the Met Office, which is an organisation I have long admired. Throughout my career my leadership ethos centres on creating the conditions wherein scientists and scientific excellence can thrive, while maintaining a keen focus on business delivery to customers. Delivering world class science for weather and climate prediction is more critical to our wellbeing now than ever before and I look forward immensely to working with such a talented workforce.” 

The Royal Meteorological Society would like to congratulate Professor Endersby on her new prestigious position and look forward to continuing our successful partnership with the Met Office.