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BILL PROENZA
Bill Proenza is the Regional Director of the National Weather Service (NWS) Southern Region, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The Southern Region encompasses approximately one quarter of the contiguous United States including Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, amounting to 20 percent of the NWS’s employees. The region is one of the most severe weather active areas in the world.
He served as Director of the National Hurricane Center from January through August of 2007. During that time, he received an award from the scientists at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory for his satellite and hurricane research advocacy for the Nation's hurricane warning program. He also received in 2007, the NWS Employees Organization's national Kip Robinson Award for courageous leadership while at the National Hurricane Center.
In 2009, he received the annual Career Excellence Award from the International Association of Emergency Managers for outstanding and innovative support to the Nation’s emergency managers and responders. The award also recognized his courageous leadership while at the National Hurricane Center.
Proenza is an internationally recognized meteorologist officially representing the U.S.A. Since 2005, he has led United States delegations to the United Nations (UNESCO) meetings on tsunamis and the oceans. In 2007, Proenza served as chairman of the World Meteorological Organization's Hurricane Sub-Committee and now serves as a senior member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization's Region IV which encompasses over 30 nations in the Americas.
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