{{short description|British geographer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jane Rumble | honorific_suffix = OBE FRGS | image = Jane Rumble.jpg | image_caption = Jane Rumble in 2016 | workplaces = Polar Regions Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK | alma_mater = University of Exeter }}
'''Jane Rumble''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|FRGS}} is the Head of the Polar Regions Department for the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=http://www.arcticfrontiers.com/arctic-frontiers/archive/2014-conference/policy-section/keynote-speakers/198-jane-rumble-head-of-polar-region-department-foreign-and-commonwealth-office-uk |title=Arctic Frontiers - Jane Rumble, Head of Polar Regions Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK |last=Emblow |first=Chris |website=www.arcticfrontiers.com |access-date=2016-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410231333/http://arcticfrontiers.com/arctic-frontiers/archive/2014-conference/policy-section/keynote-speakers/198-jane-rumble-head-of-polar-region-department-foreign-and-commonwealth-office-uk |archive-date=2016-04-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmsctech/uc103-i/uc103.pdf |title=Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean |date=2013 |publisher=House of Commons }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/PDF/ot_biodiversity2011_britishantarticterritory.pdf |title=British Antarctic Territory |website=jncc.defra.gov.uk/ |publisher=Polar Regions Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and British Antarctic Survey }}</ref> She is also HM Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who We Are |url=https://www.britishantarcticterritory.org.uk/about/who-we-are/ |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=British Antarctic Territory |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Rumble graduated with a BSc degree in geography from the University of Exeter.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/janerumble/?originalSubdomain=uk|title=Jane Rumble|website=LinkedIn|access-date=11 December 2019}}{{dead link|date=March 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
==Career and impact== Rumble was appointed to the position of Head of Polar Regions Department in January 2007, having been Deputy Head since 2003.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/jane-rumble/ |title=Jane Rumble - Sciences & technology in the service of society |website=www.csap.cam.ac.uk |access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref> She began her civil service career in the UK's Department of Environment, where she held a number of roles dealing with corporate and environmental policy, including policy on the health and safety of genetically modified crops.<ref name=":1" /> She then worked for the cross-Whitehall Teenage Pregnancy Unit before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where she began to work on polar policy. Rumble is the fourth Head of the FCDO's Polar Regions Department since 1943.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> During her time as the Head of Polar Regions, she has been involved in shaping policy relevant to Arctic and Antarctic protection.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/20/forum-on-arctic-science-of-change-focuses-on-decisions-at-the-top-of-the-world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922130659/http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/20/forum-on-arctic-science-of-change-focuses-on-decisions-at-the-top-of-the-world/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 September 2013 |title=Forum on Arctic 'Science of Change' Focuses on Decisions at the Top of the World |last=Lavelle |first=Marianne |date=2013-09-21 |access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P0vgwKtIlEwC |title=Protecting the Arctic |last=Environmental Audit Committee |date=2012-09-20 |publisher=House of Commons |isbn=9780215048394 |volume=1 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/Why+Does+Antarctica+Matter.htm |title=Why Does Antarctica Matter? |website=www.rgs.org |publisher=Royal Geographical Society |access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref>
==Awards and honours== Rumble is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) and was awarded the Back Award in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Royal Geographical Society - Back Award recipient - Jane Rumble OBE |url=https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/back-award-recipient-jane-rumble-obe/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002175633/https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/back-award-recipient-jane-rumble-obe/ |archive-date=2 October 2023 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=www.rgs.org |url-status=live }}</ref> She is also a Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy of the University of Cambridge.<ref name=":1" />
She was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=62310|date=9 June 2018 |page=B23 |supp=y}}</ref> In July 2018 she was awarded an honorary DSc degree by Leeds University.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/130509/honorary_graduates/646/jane_frances_rumble |title=Jane Frances Rumble |publisher=University of Leeds |date=July 2018 |access-date=10 July 2018}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|35em}}
==External links== * {{LinkedIn page|in/janerumble}}
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