Sally Colette Hunt OBE (born 1964) is a British trade union leader, the General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers until its merger into the new University and College Union (UCU), of which Hunt was the General Secretary until 2019.
On 1 June 2006, the AUT merged with the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) to form the UCU.
[3] Hunt was elected as the first General Secretary of UCU on 9 March 2007, narrowly beating main challenger Roger Kline (ex-NATFHE, and UCU Head of Equalities) by some 1346 votes after the second preference votes of third candidate Peter Jones were allocated after Jones was eliminated in an inconclusive first round.
[1] On 25 February 2019, UCU announced that Hunt had resigned from the post of General Secretary on health grounds [8] after having been awarded a £400,000 'post employment payment' pay-off.
[9] She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to industrial relations.