Jean-Noël Thépaut

Jean-Noël Thépaut is representing the French Meteorological Society (Météo & Climat) on the EMS Council since July 2025. He served as Director of Copernicus Services at ECMWF until his retirement in 2023. Prior to this role he was the Head Data Division and Deputy Director of the Research Department at ECMWF where his section developed data assimilation algorithms for Numerical Weather Prediction, the exploitation of satellite observations from operational and research Earth Observation platforms, and the development and production of state-of-the-art climate reanalyses.

Jean-Noël is “ingénieur de la météorologie” from Météo-France. He received his PHD from PARIS-VI university in 1992, in the field of atmospheric data assimilation. He serves on a number of scientific committees and environmental associations.

He was a member of the EMS Awards Committee 2013-2018, and CoM member in 2019.