Other Work and Background
Hunte's educational background is in Business Administration and accounting. In addition to his diplomatic work, he is currently Chairman and Chief Executive of the Julian R. Hunte Group of Companies, with a network of agencies dealing with insurance, real estate and packaging and storage.
He has also been the Chair of the Saint Lucia National Development Corporation, which is the country's principal development agency. He also served as Director of the Saint Lucia Development Bank, and the National Commercial Bank of Saint Lucia.
Hunte has played cricket at a national level in Saint Lucia, and has participated as an administrator at the national, regional and international levels. He has been President of the Saint Lucia National Cricket Association and of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control, and as Vice-President of the West Indies Cricket Board, which he has represented on the International Cricket Council, the institution responsible for international governance of the game.
He is married to Charlotte Elizabeth Jennifer Hunte (née Clarke), and has four children.
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| Preceded by Jan Kavan |
President of the United Nations General Assembly 2003–2004 |
Succeeded by Jean Ping |
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