Florence Rabier

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT FLORENCE RABIER

Leader in weather and climate, Dr Rabier is Non-Executive Director at the Met Office. She has been Director General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) from 2016 to 2026, developing the ECMWF strategy with Member States and leading ECMWF through a period of major change and expansion. ECMWF is both a research and operational intergovernmental organisation, supported by 35 states. Working collaboratively with Member States, Space Agencies and the World Meteorological Organisation, it is providing cutting edge monitoring and forecasts of the Earth system from days to months ahead to its users. It is also responsible for operating world leading services from the European Union\'s Copernicus programme (Copernicus Climate Change Service and Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), as well as being a key partner in the Destination Earth initiative delivering Digital Twins of the Earth. ECMWF is now leading, together with Member States, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning developments in meteorology, adding Data Driven simulations to physics-based forecasts in its portfolio of activities.Dr Rabier is an internationally recognised scientist, whose leadership has contributed to delivering major scientific advances and operational improvements at both ECMWF and Météo-France. She is especially well known for her key role in implementing an innovative method making optimal use of satellite observations in weather forecasting and climate monitoring.She is an honorary member of the American Meteorological Society, a member of the French Academy of Technology and a “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur”. She has been a recipient of Prize André Prud’homme for Best PhD in Meteorology and of the Great prize of the Air and Space Academy for the IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) project.