Andrea Celeste Saulo (born 6 May 1964) is an Argentine meteorologist and educator who became Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 2024. She served as director of the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) from 2014, and she was the first vice president of the World Meteorological Organization in 2018. She was the first woman to hold WMO offices.[1]
Celeste Saulo | |
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| Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Petteri Taalas |
| Director of the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional | |
| Assumed office 8 July 2014 | |
| President |
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| Preceded by | Héctor Horacio Ciappesoni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Andrea Celeste Saulo 6 May 1964 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Education | University of Buenos Aires |
| Occupation | Meteorologist, educator |
Biography
editCeleste Saulo was born in Buenos Aires on 6 May 1964. She was brought up in the capital by her father who was a doctor and her mother who was an administrator.[2] She earned a licentiate in meteorological sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and a doctorate in atmospheric sciences there in 1996.[3]
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She has been a researcher at UBA since 2000, and is a profesora asociada at its Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences. Since 2002, she has been a researcher at the Sea and Atmosphere Research Center, a joint venture of UBA and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). She has been an SMN researcher since 2016. Her specialties are atmospheric modeling, the representation of uncertainty in forecasts, and the generation of products oriented to decision making.[3]
She was the director of undergraduate and doctoral theses, director of doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships, and a doctoral thesis juror at UBA.[3] She was elected to two consecutive terms as director of the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences.[4]
She has been a member of the World Meteorological Research Program's scientific steering committee since 2011, and joined WMO's executive council in 2015.[1][4]
In July 2014, she was appointed director of SMN.[5] In April 2018, the WMO appointed her second vice president, and interim first vice president to fill the vacancy left by Rob Varley.[1] She was elected first vice president the following year.[6]
In 2023 she was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma for her work in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in the last decade.[7]
In 2024 she became the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization. She had been elected by the Nineteenth World Meteorological Congress to serve for four years. She was the World Meteorological Organization's first female and South American Secretary-General.[2]
Private life
editSaulo is married with two children.[8]
Selected publications
edit- 2000: Assessment of a regional climate for South America: a dynamical downscaling approach
- 2017: Joint Assessment of Soil Moisture Indicators (JASMIN) for southeastern South America[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c "La argentina Celeste Saulo, elegida vicepresidenta de la OMM" [The Argentine Celeste Saulo, Elected Vice President of the WMO] (in Spanish). Deutsche Welle. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Celeste Saulo". World Meteorological Organization. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Investigadores: Saulo Andrea Celeste" [Investigators: Andrea Celeste Saulo] (in Spanish). CONICET. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Entrevista a Celeste Saulo, doctora en ciencias de la atmósfera" [Interview With Celeste Saulo, Doctor of Atmospheric Sciences] (in Spanish). Leloir Institute. 17 October 2006. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ^ "Decreto 1070/2015". Boletín Nacional (in Spanish). Ministry of Defense of Argentina. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ^ "La argentina Celeste Saulo fue designada 1° Vicepresidente de la Organización Meteorológica Mundial" [The Argentine Celeste Saula Designated 1st Vice President of the World Meteorological Organization] (in Spanish). Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ^ Fundación Konex (2 May 2023). "Premios Konex 2023: Ciencia y Tecnología. Ya se conocen los Diplomas al Mérito" [Konex Awards 2023: Science and Technology. Merit Diplomas are already known]. fundacionkonex.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ Mooney, Attracta (23 August 2024). "Meteorologist Celeste Saulo: 'Climate change is not a movie. This is real life'". Financial Times.