Dr. Roar Skålin

Roar Skålin, born 1964, first joined the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway) in 1997 as head of the IT division. In 2000, he became Director of Information Technology. He held this position until 2012, when he moved to the Research Council of Norway. Since 1 January 2017, he has been Director General of MET Norway.  He is currently the EUMETNET Assembly chair, an elected member of the World Meteorological Organization Executive Council and Vice-President of ECMWF. Roar Skålin holds an MSc and Dr. Ing. in Mathematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and an Executive Master of Management from the Norwegian Business School. He started his professional career in 1988 as a research scientist and project manager in applied mathematics and high-performance computing at SINTEF, a Norwegian contract research institute.