Biography
Dr. Carolin Richter
Director, Global Climate Observing System Secretariat
Carolin RICHTER has been Director of the Global Climate Observing
System (GCOS) Secretariat since April 2009. Carolin has a Diploma and a
PhD in Meteorology from the University of Hamburg, Germany. From 1990
to 1994, she was a researcher at the Institute of Meteorology,
University of Hamburg, and then, until 1996, Research Fellow at the
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom. From October 1996 to
January 1999, she was Junior Professional Officer with GCOS, WMO. She
then joined the Deutscher Wetterdienst, first as Quality Manager and
Expert, then as Head, Division Measurement Technology, Deputy Head,
Department Observing Networks and Data. In 2005, Carolin was
transferred to the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban
Affairs, where she served as Deputy Head, Division for Meteorology,
Climate Monitoring and Earth Observation.