M. Hulme

Mike Hulme was born in London in 1960 and has lived in St.Andrews, Durham, Swansea, Khartoum, Salford, Harare, Munich and Norwich. He is a lifelong cricket fan and this inspired his twin interests in weather and statistics. These led him into a university academic career which has revolved around the study of climate and climate change. He is currently Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge having moved from King's College London in 2017. In October 2000, while at the University of East Anglia, he founded the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and become its foundation Director until 2007. His book Why We Disagree About Climate Change (2009) was chosen by The Economist magazine in 2009 as one of its science and technology books of the year. He is a frequent public speaker on climate change and appears regularly in the print and broadcast media. He is a member of the Church of England, an amateur historian and a keen genealogist; he has written a book about his experiences in discovering the joys of 'doing' family history.