People & associates
Tim Wilson
Director of Climate Change Policy and the Intellectual Property and Free Trade Unit
Tim Wilson is Director of Climate Change Policy and the IP and Free Trade Unit. He is also a Senior Fellow at New York's Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a Board member of Alfred Health and serves on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's IP Industry Consultative group.
He regularly appears on Australian and international television, radio and in the print media, and previously co-hosted ABC News 24's Snapshot segment. Tim's worked in international aid and development across South East Asia, consulting and politics.
In 2009 The Australian newspaper recognised him as one of the ten emerging leaders of Australian society as part of its Next 100 series, is a recipient of an Australian Leadership Award and was selected to participate in the inaugural Australian-ASEAN Emerging Leaders Program.
At University Tim was twice-elected Student Union President as well as to the University's Board of Directors. He's currently completing a Graduate Diploma of Energy and the Environment (Climate Science and Global Warming) at Perth's Murdoch University. He has a Masters of Diplomacy and Trade and a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, A Diploma of Business and has completed Asialink's Leaders Program at the University of Melbourne. Tim has also studied global health diplomacy at Geneva's Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développment.
Areas of expertise: Climate change, trade, intellectual property, public health
Contact details
Telephone: 0417 356 165
Related publications
An unsustainable economic transformation: How Green groups are creating false foundations and restricting the Australian economy
An unsustainable economic transformation: How Green groups are creating false foundations and restricting the Australian economy. Released 7 November 2011.
An unsustainable economic transformation
An unsustainable economic transformation: How Green groups are creating false foundations and restricting the Australian economy. Released 7 November 2011.
Gambling away perspective? A review of the evidence justifying electronic gaming regulations
There is no dispute that some people bet beyond their reasonable means when gambling. But this doesn't necessarily justify government intervention, in and of itself. The extent to which governments regulate to protect citizens from themselves...
Trading away competitiveness: green priorities influencing Australian trade policy
Trading away competitiveness: green priorities influencing Australian trade policy
Trading away competitiveness
NEW REPORT: FREE TRADE CONSENSUS UNDERMINED BY GREEN GROUPS ‘With support from across the political aisle, Australia's trade policy is being distorted by green groups to achieve their backdoor political and environmental aims,' said Tim...
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