Academic career In 1966, Hunt was elected a
fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge. He undertook
post-doctoral research as a
Fulbright Scholar at
Cornell University in 1967. From 1992, while director general of the Meteorological Office, he was an
honorary professor at Cambridge. He was also honorary director of UCL's Lighthill Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2003 to 2006. He retired from UCL in 2008, and was made an
emeritus professor.
Meteorological Office Hunt followed
Sir John Houghton as Director-General and Chief Executive of the
Meteorological Office in 1992, consequently being elected to the Executive Committee of the
World Meteorological Organisation. In 1997 he left the Met Office and was replaced by Peter Ewins. In later years he warned that the pattern of Asian
monsoons could be fundamentally altered unless there is a concerted effort to check
greenhouse gas emissions. He was chairman of Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd.
Politics While in the United States as postgraduate researcher, Hunt and his wife became interested in the
anti-Vietnam War movement and took part in the
October 1967 March on the Pentagon. He made his
maiden speech in the
House of Lords on 7 June 2000 during a debate on coastal erosion. ==Personal life==