Arlene Gloretta Laing

Dr. Laing is the Coordinating Director of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO) and the Permanent Representative of the British Caribbean Territories with WMO. She is well-known in several areas of meteorological research, such as tropical meteorology, thunderstorm systems, flash floods and mitigation, and satellite meteorology. She authored several publications and has worked as a forecaster in Jamaica and as a scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. She is a native of Barbados and pursued her graduate studies in meteorology in the US. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere. Laing has also held various academic positions such as the Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida and Adjunct Professor of North Carolina State University. Dr. Laing was the creator of the first Jamaican website on the internet.