Antonio Divino Moura

Antonio Divino Moura was a vice-president of the World Meteorological Organization and director of the Meteorological Institute of Brazil (INMET). He was founding director general of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University (1996-2002) and professor of meteorology at the Brazilian Space Research Institute and the University of São Paulo. He won the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his PhD.

In 2018 the World Meteorological Organization named Antonio Divino Moura as the winner of its top scientific prize for outstanding work in meteorology and climatology and scientific research.