# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susan-lesley-barrell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:54:41.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susan-lesley-barrell"
name: "Susan Lesley Barrell"
slug: "susan-lesley-barrell"
description: "Sue Barrell was chief scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). In 2013 she was awarded a Fellow of the Academy of Technology and Engineering (FTSE). In 2018, Barrell was elected Vice President of Science and Technology Australia. Amongst other topics, she has worked on international science policy climate monitoring, research and policy, and ocean–earth observations. Barrell was the first female meteorologist to join the senior Executive team of the BoM. She was the first female elected to leadership of a WMO Technical Commission and was one of the early female forecasters."
tagline: "British-Australian meteorologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sue_Barrell_-_Australian_meteorologist.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1953-12-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "সু ব্যারেল"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Barrell"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8F%D9%88_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%84"
    title: "سُو بیرل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump