Victoria Pope

Vicky Pope has been Chair of MEI since September 2019. She is also on the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee and the People and Remuneration Committee.

Vicky had a long and varied career in the Met Office and worked for many years on climate change. She led the development of some of the best climate models in the world and later ran the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme, acting as the interface between scientists and government and other key stakeholders including the media. Her last role was Head of Science and Technology Futures and member of the Met Office Government Services Senior Management Board.

Vicky is now an honorary Professor at the Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy Institute at University College London and is developing a portfolio career as a non-executive director and consultant. She is an independent member of one of the Boards supporting Welsh government. She is also a Trustee of BRE Trust (Building Research Establishment), the Devon Wildlife Trust and In2ScienceUK. She is a member of the ERSRC Science Advisory Team for Mathematics. Vicky is also joint Editor in Chief of Climate Resilience and Sustainability.

Vicky is passionate about enabling informed choices to be made about the future of the environment and sees improved literacy in science and maths as being central to this.