Professor The Honourable Greg Hunt

Professor, The Honourable Greg Hunt was appointed Honorary Enterprise Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Services and the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne in December 2022. Greg is also the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Council for the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. He advises a wide range of businesses and not for profits in the areas of innovation, leadership, strategic planning, health and the environment.

Professor Hunt is a highly experienced former Cabinet Minister in the Australian Government, having served as Australia’s Minister for the Environment, Innovation and Health across three major portfolios over almost nine years.

As Minister for Health from 2017 to 2022, Greg Hunt oversaw Australia’s response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, established telehealth as a permanent and universal centrepiece of Medicare, reformed private health and established long-term plans for mental health, aged care (five years), medical research and primary care (ten years) and listed over 2,000 medicines for public access.

He oversaw an annual budget of $132 billion, 17 portfolio agencies and 7,000 staff.

As Minister for Industry, Innovation & Science, Greg Hunt laid the foundation for the Australian Space Agency.

As Minister for the Environment, he established the Emissions Reduction Fund, the Green Army and the $1 billion Reef Trust.

As the longest serving Federal Member for Flinders (over 20 years), Greg Hunt is a nationally and internationally experienced legislator, negotiator, strategic thinker, stakeholder manager and administrator.

Greg Hunt was named Best Minister in the World at the World Government Summit in 2016.