Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton CB FRS (born 5 September 1941)[1] is a British meteorologist who was the Director General and Chief Executive of the British Meteorological Office from 1992 to 1997.

[2] He was made a Life peer of the Labour Party by Tony Blair in 2000 where he sat until 30 October 2021.

[7][8] Hunt was educated at Westminster School and went on to study Mechanical Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is now a fellow,[9] and gained a first class honours degree in 1963.

Hunt is the great-nephew of noted meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson.

In recent years he has warned that the pattern of Asian monsoons could be fundamentally altered unless there is a concerted effort to check greenhouse gas emissions in the area.