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• Chief Executive

  and internationally. She was appointed Chief Executive at the Met Office in 2018 and President of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in 2023, the first woman to fill either role. Penny grew up in London and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University with the help

• Hottest July day on record for the UK

  The new record was set in Cambridge at 15:37 on Thursday, beating the previous record of 36.7°C set in Heathrow in 2015 and coming close to the all-time UK temperature record of 38.5°C, recorded in Faversham in August 2003. Exceptionally high temperatures have gripped parts of Scotland and much

• met-office-science-conference-2021---agenda-overview---speakersv9.pdf

  Richard Betts MBE, Met Office Keynote speakers Baroness Brown of Cambridge Julia King, Member of House of Lords Prof Dame Julia Slingo, Former Met Office Chief Scientist (retired) Panellists Prof Tim Benton, Chatham House Dr Pam Berry, Oxford University Prof Suraje Dessai, Leeds University Prof

• met-office-science-conference-2021---agenda-overview---speakersv9pdf

  Richard Betts MBE, Met Office Keynote speakers Baroness Brown of Cambridge Julia King, Member of House of Lords Prof Dame Julia Slingo, Former Met Office Chief Scientist (retired) Panellists Prof Tim Benton, Chatham House Dr Pam Berry, Oxford University Prof Suraje Dessai, Leeds University Prof

• met-office-science-conference-2021---agenda-overview---speakersv7.pdf

  Richard Betts MBE, Met Office Keynote speakers Baroness Brown of Cambridge Julia King, Member of House of Lords Prof Dame Julia Slingo, Former Met Office Chief Scientist (retired) Panellists Prof Tim Benton, Chatham House Dr Pam Berry, Oxford University Prof Suraje Dessai, Leeds University Prof

• Professor Julian Hunt FRS remembered: a man with personal charisma, a lively style and authoritative scientific reputation

  and then as a collaborator and mentor for more than 25 years.”  Julian had a distinguished academic career at Cambridge as a lecturer and then professor in fluid dynamics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Lewis Fry Richardson, the forefather of numerical weather prediction, was his great

• met-office-science-conference-2021---agenda-overview---speakersv8.pdf

  Richard Betts MBE, Met Office Keynote speakers Baroness Brown of Cambridge Julia King, Member of House of Lords Prof Dame Julia Slingo, Former Met Office Chief Scientist (retired) Panellists Prof Tim Benton, Chatham House Dr Pam Berry, Oxford University Prof Suraje Dessai, Leeds University Prof

• Dr Chris Harris

  and subsequently the Copernicus Marine Service. He took up his current post in the newly created Coupled Data Assimilation team in 2018. Prior to joining the Met Office, Chris completed a PhD in theoretical particle physics at the Department of Physics in the University of Cambridge, where he had also

• Dr Fiona O'Connor

  to joining the Met Office Hadley Centre, she worked on tropospheric chemistry modelling as a post-doctoral research associate at Cambridge University. Before that, she did a PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth using observations and modelling to study stratospheric dynamics. Fiona also has a first class honours degree in Experimental Physics and an MSc in Environmental Chemistry from the National University of Ireland, Galway and Cork, respectively.

• David Sexton

  Centre in August 1993, after studying Maths at Cambridge University. David spent the first nine years working on detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change. This period culminated in a PhD in 2001 on experimental design and statistical modelling of climate model experiments, done