Dame Julia Slingo DBE FRS

Dame Julia Slingo served as Chief Scientist of the UK Met Office from 2009 to 2016
when she retired. At the Met Office, she led a team of more than 500 scientists
working on a broad portfolio of research that underpins weather forecasting, climate
predictions and climate change projections. Through her career, she has worked at
the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the US
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Reading University.

Dame Julia was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015 and Foreign Member of
the US National Academy of Engineering in 2016. She is also an Honorary Fellow of
the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Meteorological
Society, and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from 8 UK universities.

In her retirement, she has taken on a number of advisory roles, including advising
the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organisation where she now
serves on its high-level Science Advisory Panel. She holds an honorary professorship
at the Cabot Institute of the University of Bristol, where she chairs the Advisory
Board. She has just been appointed to Scotland’s new First Minister’s Environment
Council, and she works regularly with the Royal Society on topics ranging from
extreme events to climate change and the role of digital technologies.