Wendy Barnes

This article is part of the Nuclear Spin project of Spinwatch.

Wendy Barnes was Chief Operating Officer (Acting), Operations Group at the Department for Energy and Climate Change until 31 December 2012.

She is now a part-­time paid non-­executive director of the Met Office and BMT Group Ltd (BMT). Barnes took up the Met Office position in May 2013 and BMT in summer 2013

Background

According to her biography:

Wendy has held several executive positions in her 24 year experience in the nuclear and water industries. Starting as a professional statistician, Wendy then moved in to the area of Customer Service, Marketing and Business Development. She was also responsible for leading several large change programmes. Since leaving corporate life in 2003 Wendy has held several non-executive director positions in government security and defence departments, including FCO Services, a trading fund of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Wendy is also an executive coach and mentor and is involved with the management team at Chester Cathedral.