Dr. David Farrell has been the Principal of the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), the technical Organ of the Caribbean Meteorological Organisation (CMO), since 2006. As Principal, he has been transforming the CIMH to take a holistic and integrated approach to mitigating the current and future weather, climate, water and marine challenges the Caribbean region will experience. Under his tenure, the CIMH’s training programmes have been expanded and are sought after by persons from around the world. Weather and climate observation and early warning networks across the region have been enhanced and expanded with many reporting in near real-time. To enhance and expand the region’s multihazard early warning systems, the WMO-designated Regional Climate Centre (RCC) for the Caribbean, the Caribbean Centre for Climate and Environmental Simulations (CCCES), the Caribbean Regional Marine Forecast Support Centre, and the Pan American Node of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (WAS-SAS), were established at the CIMH. Activities across the various Centres are being increasing integrated. 

Dr. Farrell has over 30 years of experience working on a range of water resources, environmental and geological hazard and risk assessment projects in the USA, Canada and the Caribbean. He was previously employed initially as a Research Scientist and later a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses (CNWRA) at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, Texas, USA from 1998-2006. 

Dr. Farrell has both a Ph.D. (1997) and an M.Sc. (1993) in Hydrogeology from the University of Manitoba, Canada and received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Geophysics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1989.