Clive Hamilton

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Clive Hamilton is Executive Director and public face of The Australia Institute, a left leaning Australian think tank. He has a BA in Pure Mathematics from the Australian National University, a BEc (First Class Honours) in Economics from the University of Sydney and a PhD in economics from the University of Sussex.

Hamilton has worked in economic research and policy evaluation in the area of natural resource management and environment. He has worked in Indonesia, Nepal, South Korea and South Africa and served on a UN Groups of Experts on Least Developed Countries. He has held positions at the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of Cambridge.

Hamilton publishes and comments on a range of environmental, social and economic issues, and regularly appears in the Australian media. He offers a critique of modern capitalism and consumerism, and is critical of the absence of debate within the major political parties of the myth of free markets, social inequality, the roots of unsustainable development, the power of multi-national corporations, among other issues.

He is an advocate of sustainable development, and social and economic equality.