Patrick Hunt is an award-winning archaeologist, explorer, author, and National Geographic grantee. He earned his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (University of London), and has taught at Stanford University for over thirty years. Hunt directed the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project from 1994 to 2012 and has continued project-related fieldwork in the region subsequently. His Alps research has been sponsored by the National Geographic Society Expedition Council, and he frequently lectures for National Geographic on Hannibal and the European glacial mummy “Ötzi the Iceman”. Hunt is a National Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America – including the AIA Norton Lecturer 2022-23 - as well as an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and elected Fellow of the Explorers Club. He is the author of 25 published books, including Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History and Hannibal.