Our team
The team has wide and deep experience in the most senior leadership positions across the whole weather enterprise. This enables BoW to fill significant gaps throughout the weather intelligence value chain.
Dr. David Rogers
Senior Consultant
Dr. Rogers is an independent consultant, providing expert assistance and advice on weather, water, and climate issues.
His clients have included the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), World Bank, World Meteorological Organization, World Health Organization, Green Climate Fund, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, US National Weather Service, Shanghai Municipal Government, Hyphen Group and other public and private sector organizations.
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Dr Rogers has helped develop investment strategies to enhance impact-based multi-hazard early warning systems for anticipatory action, and to modernize national meteorological, hydrological, disaster management and related services in developing and least developed countries.
This has included projects in South-eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East (Yemen), Central Asia (Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan), South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar), Southeast Asia (Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam), Pacific Islands (Tonga, Samoa and Vanuatu). He has published extensively on the role and operations of meteorological services, on strengthening legal frameworks, on the development of user applications, regional cooperation, multi-hazard early warning systems, private sector engagement and guidance on transitioning government departments to public bodies.
Most recently he has played an active role in the ongoing development of the South Asia Hydromet Forum (SAHF) focusing on value creation and services for industry.
Dr Rogers is past President and founder of the Health and Climate Foundation, an international non-profit organization dedicated to finding solutions to climate related health problems and supporting partnerships between health and climate practitioners.
Prior to founding HCF, Dr. Rogers held various appointments in government, the private sector and academia. These include Chief Executive of the UK Met Office; Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation; Director of the Office of Weather and Air Quality at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Director of Physical Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and Associate Director of the California Space Institute, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Dr. Rogers has a Ph.D. (1983) from the University of Southampton and Bachelor of Science degree (1980) from the University of East Anglia, UK. He has published extensively in the fields of oceanography, meteorology, climate, environment and organizational development.
Professor Alan Thorpe
Senior Consultant
Alan is a Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, a former Non-Executive Director of the Met Office, and an ex-Director-General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
He has wide-ranging public sector and private sector experience. He is a former Chief Executive Officer of the Natural Environment Research Council, a former Director of The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and a former Head of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading.
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Alan is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, and a former Non-Executive Director of the Met Office. He is an ex-Director-General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
Alan has wide-ranging public sector and private sector experience. He is a former Chief Executive Officer of the Natural Environment Research Council, a former Director of The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and a former Head of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading.
Alan was appointed an OBE in 2016, has honorary degrees of Doctor of Science from the universities of Warwick, Birmingham, and Reading and was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Meteorological Society in 2018.
He has been involved with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery of the World Bank and the Global Weather Enterprise Forum.
Ian Harper
Media Production Consultant
Ian is a business journalist, conference organiser, and audio and video producer.
He now produces and edits BoW’s regular video podcast, The WeatherPod, and also has responsibility for producing BoW’s video and audio productions including podcasts and webinars.
Previously he was the conference director for InterMET Asia, the annual event for the hydrometeorology industry which took place in Singapore from 2014 to 2020. Prior to that he worked for the AVIVA insurance group, The Scotsman newspaper, and the Financial Times, Reed, EMAP and Morgan Grampian publishing groups.
Company details
Media Generation Ventures Ltd, a company incorporated in the UK in 2009 and trading as Business of Weather.
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