Vice-Presidents

Ali Mohammad Noorian was elected First Vice-President of the World Meteorological Organization by Fourteenth World Meteorological Congress in 2003, for a four-year term beginning immediately after the closure of the Congress. He has been Director of the Meteorological Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRIMO) and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran with WMO since 1981. For many years he was also President of the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization, a position that he relinquished in order to devote more time to meteorology.

He has a long-standing experience in international cooperation in meteorology. In 1991, he was elected as a member of the WMO Executive Council and Second Vice-President of the Organization in 1997. He has been actively involved in the WMO Bureau and has chaired numerous sessions of the Advisory Groups of the Executive Council, meetings of the presidents of WMO technical commissions and working committees of the WMO Congress.