Dr. Joel N. Myers, founder and Executive Chairman of AccuWeather, is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology” and the nation’s most respected authority on the business of weather. A visionary entrepreneur whom The New York Times named “the most accurate man in weather,” Dr. Myers started AccuWeather as a graduate student in 1962 and built the company into a global leader in forecast accuracy, weather-related big data, business and predictive analytics. Today, AccuWeather is recognized as the proven most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world.

Dr. Myers joined the World Economic Forum community in Davos at Goals House in 2024 to launch his first book, Invisible Iceberg: When Climate and Weather Shaped History, which debuted as the #1 New Release in Weather on Amazon.