Professor Lord Julian HUNT

(C4T) Emeritus Professor of Climate Modelling, Department of Earth Sciences, UCL

Professor Julian Hunt was the Emeritus Professor of Climate Modelling in Department of Earth Sciences at University College London. Before joining UCL, Professor Hunt was at the University of Cambridge, where he held honorary positions and was a Fellow of Trinity College. He maintained his links with Cambridge through his role as a Visiting Fellow of the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre. In 1992 Professor Hunt stepped down from his role as Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge to become Director General and Chief Executive of the Meteorological Office, a position he held for 5 years.

Professor Hunt is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has honorary degrees from Salford, Bath, East Anglia, Warwick, Grenoble, and Uppsala.

He was a member of the C4T Scientific Advisory Committee until his retirement. CARES acknowledges with grace that Professor Lord Julian Hunt passed away peacfeully in April 2026 and is survived by his wife, Marylla, and their three children, Tristram, Jemima and Matilda.

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