Mike Hulme is professor of human geography at the University of Cambridge.  He obtained a BSc (Durham, 1981) and PhD (Swansea, 1985) in Geography.  Prior to joining Cambridge in 2017, he held academic positions at King’s College London (2013-2017), University of East Anglia (1988-2013) and the University of Salford (1984-1988), and been a visiting academic at the University of Zimbabwe and at the Rachel Carson Centre, Münich.

Hulme’s work illuminates the numerous ways in which the idea of climate change is deployed in public, political, religious and scientific discourse.  He is the author of over 170 peer-reviewed articles and 12 books on climate change including, most recently, Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism (Polity, 2023) and, co-editor, A Critical Assessment of the IPCC (Cambridge University Press, 2022).  He is the author of the widely acclaimed Why We Disagree About Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2009). From 2000 to 2007, Hulme was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, leading a national interdisciplinary consortium comprising nine UK universities.  In 2007 he received a personal certificate recognising his contribution to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC.

He is a professorial fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge.