Strategic Advisers

Professor 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 and was appointed as an Honorary Professor  at the University College, London in February 2024. 

Greg is also the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Council for the Turner Institute for Brain  and Mental Health at Monash University and Chair of the Novartis Foundation’s  CARDIO4Cities Accelerator Advisory Steering Committee. He advises a wide range of  businesses and not for profits in the areas of innovation, leadership, strategic planning,  health and the environment. 

Greg 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, he 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, medical research and primary care and listed over 2,000 new and amended  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, he laid the foundation for the Australian  Space Agency.  

As Minister for the Environment, he established the Emissions Reduction Fund, the  Green Army, the $1 billion Reef Trust and helped lead Australia’s negotiations for the  Montreal Protocol update and Paris Climate Change Accord. For his work as  Environment Minister, Greg was named Best Minister in the World at the World  Government Summit in 2016.  

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

Greg was elected as the Federal Member for Flinders in 2001 and became Parliamentary  Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage and then Parliamentary 

Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs as a young Member of Parliament in the  Howard Government. He was Shadow Minister for the Environment from 2007-2013.  

Prior to Parliament, Greg worked with Mallesons Stephen Jacques before becoming  Associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court.  

Between 1994 and 1998, Greg worked as a Senior Adviser to the then Opposition Leader  and subsequent Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer. He then headed  Australia’s electoral mission to Cambodia in 1998.  

Greg then worked with McKinsey & Co for almost three years, during which time he  became an Engagement Manager and specialised in telecommunications, start-ups,  government reform and the banking sector.  

Greg is a Fulbright Scholar with a Masters from Yale University and First Class Honours  in Law from the University of Melbourne. He has given over 10,000 speeches and  interviews at local, national and international level and was runner up at the 1990  World Debating Championships, as well as Australian Universities Debating Captain.  

Greg has completed seven marathons and five 500km walks for charity.  

He lives on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula with his wife Paula and two children, 91 year old Italian Nonna and cavoodle Charlie.