Dr. Rogers is President of the Health and Climate Foundation (HCF), an international non-profit organization dedicated to finding solutions to climate related health problems and supporting partnerships between health and climate practitioners. Prior to founding HCF, Dr. Rogers held various appointments in government, the private sector and academia. These include Chief Executive of the UK Met Office; Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation; Director of the Office of Weather and Air Quality at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Director of Physical Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Associate Director of the California Space Institute, University of California, San Diego, USA. Currently, Dr. Rogers is a senior advisor to the World Bank. Dr. Rogers has a Ph.D. (1983) from the University of Southampton and Bachelor of Science degree (1980) from the University of East Anglia, UK. He has published extensively in the fields of oceanography, meteorology, climate, environment and organizational development