Moderator, Segment on Hydrological Data Management
Professor Dame Julia Slingo is the Special Advisor on Climate to the Secretary-General of WMO. From 2009 to 2016, she was the Chief Scientist of the Met Office in the United Kingdom, and was awarded the prestigious IMO prize for her outstanding work in meteorology, climatology, hydrology and related sciences in 2015. She is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, where she held, the positions of Director of Climate Research in the Natural Environment Research Council National Centre for Atmospheric Science and founding Director of the Walker Institute for Climate System Research. From 2015 to 2016, she was one of the members of the High Level Group of Scientific Advisors of the European Commission on Scientific Advice Mechanism.