Naomi Wendy Climer, CBE, 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 is a Non Executive Director on the Boards of Focusrite plc and Oxford Metrics plc,[4] is a non executive on the Board of Sony UK Technology Centre and is co-founder and co-chair of the Institute for the Future of Work.
[3][8][9][10][11] Climer is a past chair of Council of the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), 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.
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.
[6] Climer has been awarded honorary degrees from Huddersfield,[7] Southampton Solent,[8] Bradford[9] and University of Wolverhampton.