Julian Hunt is the Academic Director of the Lighthill Risk Network. He has been a Professor of Climate Modelling in the Department of Space & Climate Physics, and Earth Sciences, and Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College London, since 1999. Formerly he was at the University of Cambridge as a Professor of Fluid Mechanics. He is still a Fellow of Trinity College. He is also a J.M. Burgers visiting Professor at the Delft University of Technology, and is Director of the Lighthill Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Lord Hunt is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and has honorary degrees from Salford, Bath, East Anglia, Warwick, Grenoble, and Uppsala.
Lord Hunt was Director-General and Chief Executive of the Meteorological Office from 1992-1997, and was created a Baron in the House of Lords (with the title Lord Hunt of Chesterton) in May 2000. Whilst at the Met Office he was elected to the Executive Committee of the World Meteorological Organisation.
Lord Hunt is also Chairman of Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd.,which is working world wide on air pollution modelling and forecasting; and Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Protection of the Sea Ltd., a non-governmental organisation for international projects on sustainable development.
