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Tim Wilson

Portrait of 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

MEDIA RELEASE | Tim Wilson

An unsustainable economic transformation: How Green groups are creating false foundations and restricting the Australian economy. Released 7 November 2011.

An unsustainable economic transformation

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Tim Wilson

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

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Tim Wilson and Julie Novak

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

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Tim Wilson

Trading away competitiveness: green priorities influencing Australian trade policy

Trading away competitiveness

MEDIA RELEASE | Tim Wilson

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...

Related news

Run car subsidies out of town

Economics & Deregulation | Tim Wilson
The Australian 18th January, 2012

Continuing subsidies to car companies isn't just bad economics. It's also bad for communities and workers as well. Perpetuating unsustainable...

Durban deal isolates Gillard

Economics & Deregulation, Deregulation Unit, Energy and Climate Change | Tim Wilson
The Australian 12th December, 2011

Durban's meek outcome doesn't bode well for international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions or the sustainability of Australia's domestic...

Gillard left out on a limb in Durban talks

Climate Change | Tim Wilson
The Australian Financial Review 9th December, 2011

The absence of an outcome at the Durban climate change talks has significant implications for the Gillard government and its carbon tax. The...

Carbon tax can't work unless all share the load

Climate Change | Tim Wilson
The Australian 28th November, 2011

Over the next two weeks the justification for introducing a carbon tax will unravel as securing a new international carbon cutting agreement...

For and against an ABC-run Australia Network

Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit | Tim Wilson
The Drum 12th November, 2011

On Monday night the Federal Government killed off the tender process for the Australia Network contract. But debate continues over who should host...