Clive Hamilton

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Clive Hamilton is a Director, and former Executive Director, of The Australia Institute, a self described 'progressive' Australian think tank.^[1] He is an advocate of sustainable development, and social and economic equality.

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 free markets, social inequality, the roots of unsustainable development, and the power of Multinational corporations. He is the author of Growth Fetish, Scorcher and Silencing Dissent.

Hamilton has worked extensively 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 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.