Short CV: Professor Mike Hulme Personal Details Date of Birth: 23 July 1960 Office Address: Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Group School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK Telephone: +44 (0)1603 593162 Fax: +44 (0)1603 593901 E. Mail: m.hulme @uea.ac.uk Web site: www.mikehulme.org Prizes, Achievements and Academic Qualifications 2012 Bulletin American Meteorological Society Editor’s Award for the most insightful and constructive reviewer’s comments 2010 ‘Gerald L North Book Prize’ from the Society of Human Ecology for Why We Disagree About Climate Change 2009 One of The Economist magazine’s four ‘Books of the Year’ for science for Why We Disagree About Climate Change 2007 Co-recipient (as a ‘significant member’ of the IPCC) of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize 2005 Awarded the 2005 Queen’s Lecture, an annual science lecture in Berlin promoting the success of British science. Topic ‘Discovering climate change: from Tyndall to Hollywood’ 1995 Hugh Robert Mill Prize (co-recipient) from the Royal Meteorological Society for contributions to the understanding and analysis of precipitation 1985 PhD in Applied Climatology, University of Wales, Swansea Thesis title: Secular climatic and hydrological change in central Sudan 1981 BSc (Hons.) Geography, class IIi University of Durham, UK Employment 2002-present Professor of Climate Change, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA, Norwich 2000-2007 Founding Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK 1998-2000 Reader, Climatic Research Unit, UEA, Norwich 1988-1997 Senior Research Associate, Climatic Research Unit, UEA, Norwich 1986 Visiting British Council Lecturer, University of Zimbabwe 1984-1988 Lecturer in Geography, University of Salford. Major Research Contracts 2007-2011 £0.22m Public perceptions of energy options (Leverhulme Trust) 2006-2009 €12m Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies (EU Commission, FP6) 2000-2009 £16.6m Tyndall Centre Phases 1 & 2 (NERC, EPSRC, ESRC) 2000-2005 £0.36m Tyndall business liaison programme (DTI) 1988-present £2.6m Assorted climate change research contracts (e.g. Defra, MAFF, DfID, WWF-International, UNDP, Scottish Executive, EU Commission, MRC, NERC, EPSRC, IPCC, Hadley Centre, Royal Society, European Environment Agency, Leverhulme Trust) 1 Journal Editorships • Editor-in-Chief, Wiley’s Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change (2007 onwards) • Co-Editor, Global Environmental Change (2003-2009) • Joint Editor, Climate Research (1997-2001) • Member of Editorial Boards of Climate Policy (2000-onwards), Environmental Science and Policy (2009-onwards) and of the International Journal of Climatology (1994-1999) • Editorial Advisor, Progress in Physical Geography (1997-2002) • Newsletter editor, Association of British Climatologists (1989-1994) Professional and Public Speaking I give an average of 10-15 invited keynote academic lectures and seminars each year to national and international universities, institutions and conferences such as the 2005 Queen’s Lecture in Berlin, the Royal Institution, the Royal Geographical Society, Forum for the Future, European Science Foundation, the Finnish Global Change Programme, etc., etc. I have also given over 200 public talks about climate change to organisations as diverse as the BA Science Festival, the Liberal Democrats annual conference, the Edinburgh and Hay Book Festivals, the Institute of Ideas, Science Cafes, Women’s Institute, Norwich City Council and many more. Media Work I devised and authored a monthly climate column for The Guardian newspaper (1988-2001) and have been a regular book reviewer for the Times Higher Educational Supplement (2000-2007). I have over 160 TV and radio appearances including CNN, BBC1 and BBC2 TV, ABC, BBC Radio 4 programmes - ‘Today’, ‘Material World’, ‘Home Planet’, ‘You & Yours’, ‘Costing the Earth’, ‘The Investigation’ – and the BBC World Service. I have written commentaries and opinion pieces for many popular outlets, such The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, BBC news on-line, Open- Democracy, Seed Magazine, Times Higher Education, Science and People, The Daily Mail and New Scientist. Publications My H-Index is 38 (Scopus; November 2011). My full publications list can be found here: http://mikehulme.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Hulme-Publications-January-2011.pdf Recent Publication Highlights: Hulme,M., O’Neill,S.J. and Dessai,S. (2011) Is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation funding? Science 334, 764-765 Hulme,M. (2011) Meet the humanities Nature Climate Change 1(4), 177-179 Hulme,M. (2010) IPCC: cherish it, tweak it or scrap it? Nature 463, 730-731 Hulme,M. (2010) Problems with making and governing global kinds of knowledge Global Environmental Change 20(4), 558-564 Hulme,M. (2009) Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 393pp. Adger,W.N., Dessai,S., Goulden,M., Hulme,M., Lorenzoni,I., Nelson,D., Otto-Naess,L., Wolf,J. and Wreford,A. (2009) Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change? Climatic Change 93, 335-354 2 .