Naomi Climer

Naomi Wendy Climer
Naomi Climer in the Institution of Engineering and Technology during her Presidency
Born	(1964-12-18)18 December 1964
Nationality	British
Fields	Engineer

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 Solutions, and was the first female President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Climer attended Gainsborough High School (now Queen Elizabeth High School) and Imperial College London, gaining a joint-degree in 1986 of Chemistry with Management Science.

Climer chairs the DCMS Future Commumications Challenge Group, is a commissioner on the Labour Party's independent commission on the Future of Work, and chairs the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) Council and is also a non executive on the Board of Sony UK Technology Centre. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering (elected 2013) and was a Trustee of the Institution of Engineering and Technology from 2009-2017, Deputy President from 2012, President from Sept 2015 and Immediate Past President from Sept 2016-Sept 2017. Climer was the subject of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific and promoted the importance of engineering and the need for diversity in engineering across numerous media appearances.

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.