IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra elected as vice-president of World Meteorological Organisation

IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra elected as vice-president of World Meteorological Organisation

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: June 06 2023

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The Director General of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Mrutyunjay Mohapatra was elected as one of the three vice-presidents of the World Meteorological Organisation.
Along with Mohapatra, the UN agency for climate change, weather and water elected two other vice-presidents as well.
The WMO appoints one President and three vice-presidents, who preside over the Executive Council and the World Meteorological Congress.
Director of meteorology of Cote d'Ivoire, Daouda Konate was elected as the first vice-president and Eoin Moran, director of Met Éireann, was elected the second vice-president.
Abdulla Al Mandous, the director of United Arab Emirates National Center of Meteorology, was elected President of WMO for a four-year term at the WMO elections held in Geneva.
Mohapatra hails from Odisha and is often referred to as the ‘cyclone man of India’. He has been heading the IMD since 2019.
Earlier, India’s Earth Sciences Secretary M Ravichandran was also elected as the vice-chair of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Mechanism (ATCM), an annual decision making mechanism that establishes limitations on commercial sealing and provides a mechanism to deal with it in Antarctica.

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