Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton

Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton FRS (born 5 September 1941) is a leading British authority on turbulence modelling, former Director General and Chief Executive of the UK Meteorological Office.

Life

He is Professor of Climate modelling in the Department of Space & Climate Physics and Department of Earth Sciences at University College London.

He was educated at Westminster School and went on to study Mechanical Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge where he is now a fellow, and gained a first class honours degree in 1963. In 1967 he was awarded a PhD on Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics from Cambridge.In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He was made a life peer as Baron Hunt of Chesterton, of Chesterton in the County of Cambridgeshire on 5 May 2000. He is the father of historian and Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central, Tristram Hunt and journalist and novelist Jemima Hunt.

Meteorological Office

He followed Sir John Houghton as Director-General and Chief Executive of the Meteorological Office in 1992, consequently being elected...
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