Mike Hulme

In the interests of openness and transparency I here declare my professional sources of income and the funders of my research over recent years.

I am employed by the UEA as a professor and receive a negotiable professorial salary

I also receive an annual honorarium of less than £5,000 from Wiley-Blackwell in recognition of my duties as Editor-in-Chief of the journal WIREs Climate Change

I receive, on average, aggregate payments of less than £3,000 per year for various media writings and appearances

I am currently a co-investigator on a £216,000 Leverhulme Trust grant and I currently supervise two PhD students who are funded by the ESRC and by the UEA respectively

In the last 10 years I have been principal (or co-) investigator on research grants and contracts totalling about £30 million, primarily about £16m from RCUK (for the Tyndall Centre) and around €12m from EU FP6 (for the ADAM project).  Over the last 20 years I have also received smaller research grants or contracts amounting to around £4 million from, inter alia, Defra, MAFF, DfID, WWF-International, UNDP, Scottish Executive, EU Commission, MRC, NERC, EPSRC, IPCC, Hadley Centre, Royal Society, European Environment Agency, Leverhulme Trust.  See Current Projects a more complete list.

Over the last 20 years I have also undertaken a variety of smaller consulting tasks (between £100 and £5,000) for a wide variety of organisations, many of whom are listed below: BP Amoco, CICERO/UNEP, CICERO/World Bank, Department of the Environment (UK), Global Environment Facility, Mott MacDonald/Anglian Water, Mott MacDonald/BNFL, Mott MacDonald/World Bank, Nirex, Overseas Development Institute/World Bank, Overseas Development Administration (UK), UNDP/World Bank, UNEP, UNDP, University of Reading/World Bank, Science Museum, World Commission for Dams, WS Atkins Engineering Ltd.

Biography

I was the Founding Director (2000-2007) of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK, which has been headquartered in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) since its launch in October 2000. I have worked at UEA since 1988, following a period as lecturer in geography at the University of Salford. I have published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers, 3 books and over 30 book chapters on climate change topics, together with over 240 reports and popular articles.  I am Editor-in-Chief of the new journal Wiley’s Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, to launch in January 2010. 

From 2004-2009 I co-edited the journal Global Environmental Change with Neil Adger and Katrina Brown and from 2006-2009 I led the EU Integrated Project ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies), which comprised a 26-member European research consortium contributing research to the development of EU climate policy. I have prepared climate scenarios and reports for the UK Government (including the UKCIP98 and UKCIP02 scenarios), the European Commission, UNEP, UNDP, WWF-International and the IPCC. I was co-ordinating Lead Author for the chapter on ‘Climate scenario development’ for the Third Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as well as a contributing author for several other chapters.

I was jointly awarded the Hugh Robert Mill Medal in 1995 by the Royal Meteorological Society for work on rainfall variability and I delivered the 2005 invited Queen’s Lecture in Berlin. I am a frequent speaker about climate change at academic, professional and public events, and for the media. I pioneered and wrote a monthly climate column for The Guardian newspaper between 1988 and 2000.

Curriculum vitae

The most recent version (August 2007) of my CV can be downloaded here.