Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune

Rupa Kumar Kolli is an Honorary Scientist and former Executive Director of the International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO), at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India.
Dr Kolli served as the Chief of World Climate Applications and Services Division at World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland, during 2006-2019. He served as the Vice-Chair of the WMO Standing Committee on Climate Services (SC-CLI), during 2020-24. He is currently a core member of SC-CLI and Co-Lead of Expert Team on Climate Services Information Systems for Decision Support. He has been a founding member of the Managing Committee of Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN).
Dr Kolli worked at IITM from 1982 to 2006 and was the Head of its Climatology and Hydrometeorology Division. He co-authored a book on “Climates of South Asia”, published several research papers on climate prediction, climate change and climate services. He contributed as one of the Lead Authors on regional climate projections for the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007. He received his Ph.D. (1981) and M.Sc. (1976) degrees in Meteorology from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.
Dr Kolli is a Fellow of the Indian Meteorological Society (IMS), and has served as IMS President for the term 2022-24.