Dr Hunt is a research scientist at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, investigating the storage of desalinated seawater in pumped storage hydropower plants in Saudi Arabia and the use of pumped storage hydropower as an adaptation strategy for climate change, e.g., water storage and flood control. He holds a chemical engineering degree from the University of Nottingham, UK, a D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford and worked for seven years at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. Dr Hunt has developed several innovative arrangements for pumped storage hydropower and mapped the potential for pumped storage hydropower globally, in Brazil, India, Pakistan, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and other countries, including plant costs and their environmental impact.