Brian J Mott, F.R.Met.S.

Managing Director

Brian Mott joined the U.K. Met Office in 1962 and trained as a professional weather observer, serving at numerous civil airports and military airfields throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. In 1968 he started a period of retraining as a Radio (meteorological) Technician, culminating in 1970 with a posting to the Regional Maintenance Centre at Watnall near Nottingham. 

Promotion in 1973 took him, as Officer-in-Charge, to the Area Servicing Centre based at Birmingham Airport. There he managed a small team of technicians until 1980, when he won a competitive secondment to the government of the New Hebrides (later Vanuatu) as the sole Technical Officer, maintaining the Meteorological Department’s upper air station at Port Vila International Airport, and a variety of instrumentation installed throughout the archipelago.  He was responsible for the installation of the first Vaisala MicroCORA radiosonde ground station in the south Pacific, and served for a short time as Director of Meteorological Services.

Brian returned to the Met Office in 1986 to carry out development work in the R&D Department at Bracknell before accepting a post to the upper air station and principle maintenance centre for Scotland, at Shanwell in Fife. There he was involved with the installation of the Met Office’s first operational Vaisala PC-CORA radiosonde ground station.

In 1992 he returned to Vanuatu as Assistant Director (Technical Services), finally coming back to the United Kingdom in 1994. After 34 years’ service, he left the Met Office in August 1996, to concentrate on the development of MetEngUK.