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Naomi Wendy Climer FREng, FIET (born 18 December 1964) is a British engineer who has worked in broadcast, media and communications technology chiefly at the BBC and Sony Professional <1>, and was the first female President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. (IET) <2>

Early life Climer was born in Uxbridge, then in Middlesex, now in the London Borough of Hillingdon. She attended Gainsborough High School (now Queen Elizabeth High School) and Imperial College London, gaining a joint-degree in 1986 of Chemistry with Management Science.

Career Climer chairs the DCMS Future Commumications Challenge Group <3>, is a commissioner on the Labour Party’s independent commission on the Future of Work <4>, Chairs the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) Council <5> and is a non executive on the Board of Sony UK Technology Centre. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (elected 2013) <6>, is a Fellow of the IET and has honorary degrees from Huddersfield <17> and Southampton Solent universities <18>. Climer was named as one of the top 50 most influential women engineers in the UK by the Daily Telegraph and Women’s Engineering Society (WES) 2016 <7> and one of the top 50 most influential women in IT in the UK by Computer Weekly <8> in 2015 and 2016. Climer was Trustee of the IET from 2009-2017, Deputy President from 2012, President from Sept 2015 <9> and Immediate Past President from Sept 2016-Sept 2017. Climer was the subject of BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific <10> and promoted the importance of engineering and the need for diversity in engineering across numerous media appearances. <11-16> From 2012, she moved to California to be President of Sony’s Media Cloud Services start-up business, returning to the UK in 2015 to take up the Presidency of the IET. Climer joined Sony Professional Solutions Europe in 2002 as Director of Professional Services and became Vice President running the whole business from 2006 – 2012. During this time, she oversaw the move to new markets, the acquisition of Hawk-Eye for sports business, pushed Sony’s sustainability agenda and started the 50:50 campaign for gender diversity. Climer was Director of Technical Operations from 2000-02 of ITV Digital. ITV Digital ceased in June 2002 with Freeview being created in October 2002. Climer joined the BBC in 1987 as an engineer, training in the same cohort as Kate Bellingham. She worked in BBC Broadcasting House and BBC World Service at Bush House before becoming Controller of Technology at BBC News. From 1998 to 2000, she was also a Director of the Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit.

Personal life She married Carl Schofield in 2008. She has one step-daughter.

References <1> Climer, Naomi Wendy Who’s Who 2016 (online edition via Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury publishing plc. (subscription required) <2> IET September 2015 (http://www.theiet.org/membership/member-news/39a/naomi-climer-independent-profile.cfm) <3> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/interim-report-of-future-communications-challenge-group-uk-strategy-and-plan-for-5g-digitisation <4> http://www.tom-watson.com/fow <5> To follow – link to IBC Council section of IBC website once we’ve written it! <6> “list of fellows”. Royal Academy of Engineering <7> Top 50 women engineers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/women-in-engineering/ <8> Top 50 women in IT http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450298538/Computer-Weekly-announces-the-50-most-influential-women-in-UK-IT-2016 <9> IET President Inaugural lecture Nov 2015 https://tv.theiet.org/?videoid=6842 <10> “BBC Radio 4 - The life scientific” <11> Independent article (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/naomi-climer-first-female-president-of-institution-of-engineering-and-technology-vows-to-attract-10498450.html) <12> Womans Hour <13> Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/852c6066-9ff6-11e5-beba-5e33e2b79e46 <14> IET News https://tv.theiet.org/?videoid=7551 <15> The Engineer https://www.theengineer.co.uk/naomi-climer-president-institution-of-engineering-and-technology-iet/ <16> The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/international-womens-day-opening-up-engineering-to-diversity <17> https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2016/july/presidentoftheietconferredwithhonoraryaward.php <18> https://www.solent.ac.uk/news/school-of-media-arts-and-technology/2016/leading-female-engineer-awarded-honorary-degree

External links •	Independent September 2015 (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/naomi-climer-first-female-president-of-institution-of-engineering-and-technology-vows-to-attract-10498450.html) •	IET (http://www.theiet.org/about/people/trustees/botbios1516.cfm)

Engineer: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer ) BBC: (bbc.co.uk) Sony Professional: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Professional_Solutions ) IET (www.theiet.org) Queen Elizabeth High School: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth%27s_High_School Imperial college London: https://www.imperial.ac.uk IBC http://www.ibc.org Sony UK Technology Centre http://www.sonypencoed.co.uk Sony Media Cloud Services https://www.sonymcs.com Hawkeye http://www.hawkeyeinnovations.co.uk