Greg Hunt

Biography

Gregory Andrew Hunt (born 18 November 1965) is an Australian former politician who was the Minister for Health between January 2017 and May 2022. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives between November 2001 and 2022, representing the Division of Flinders in Victoria. He previously served as a parliamentary secretary in the Howard government (2004–2007), Minister for the Environment (2013–2016), Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science (2016–2017), and Minister for Sport (2017). From March 2020 until his retirement in May 2022, Hunt had oversight over the Australian government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. During this period, international analyses reported a decline in global life expectancy of 1.6 years between the start of 2019 and the end of 2021, while Australia was one of a small number of countries to record an increase of 0.2 years over the same period. In 2016, Hunt was named Best Minister in the World at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Following his parliamentary career, Hunt has held academic and advisory appointments, including as an Honorary Professor of Practice at University College London’s Global Business School for Health, as an Honorary Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne and as Chair of the Advisory Council of the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in addition to non-executive director and corporate advisory roles.

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