Edward Neil "Ed" Rappaport (born November 18, 1957)[1] served as the acting director of the National Hurricane Center from 2007 to 2008 and again from 2017 to 2018.

He began serving as acting director again when Richard Knabb left the NHC in 2017[4] until Kenneth Graham was selected to succeed him in 2018.

[6] Rappaport joined the NHC in 1987, training as a post-doctoral fellow, then worked on an array of assignments as a research meteorologist starting in 1988.

Having both operational forecasting and research experience, Rappaport became deputy director in 2000.

[7] In November 2006, he declined to be nominated to replace Max Mayfield as director, citing personal reasons.