Appointment to the Met Office Board

Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark has appointed Hunada Nouss as a new non-executive director to the Met Office, the United Kingdom's national weather service, Board. Hunada Nouss attended her first meeting on 1 October 2018 and replaces Dame Mary Keegan, who stood down at the end of her term in August 2018. Hunada Nouss will also chair the Board’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.

Led by an independent, non-executive Chair, the Met Office Board’s role is to support and challenge the Executive team and carefully scrutinise its proposals and the organisation’s performance in relation to setting and implementing the Met Office Corporate Plan and strategy. Board members are appointed by government following an open recruitment process.

Hunada Nouss is currently Finance Director General at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which is one of the Government's largest departments. Her role is to support ministers to deliver a challenging reform agenda within an increasingly constrained financial environment. Before joining the DWP, Hunada was Director General, Finance and Corporate Services at the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Beginning her career with accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Hunada has held various senior financial, commercial and strategic roles in the private sector including Finance Director of Burger King, which is a Diageo subsidiary, in the UK. It was for Diageo plc that Hunada worked in London, Amsterdam and Miami in various prominent roles developing strategies to increase profits and leading major organisation restructures, mergers and cultural change programmes.

Hunada is also currently Trustee for the Breast Cancer Campaign and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

The Met Office is the UK’s National Meteorological Service, providing weather and climate-related services to government departments, the public, broadcasters, Armed Forces, civil aviation, shipping, industry, agriculture and commerce. It is also responsible for the UK’s National Severe Weather Warning Service.

The Met Office is an Executive Agency, and Trading Fund, of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.