People & associates

Tim Wilson

Director of Climate Change Policy and the Intellectual Property and Free Trade Unit

Tim Wilson has worked with the Institute of Public Affairs since 2007.

Tim also serves on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's IP industry consultative group as well being a Senior Fellow at New York's Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.

He can be seen and heard being outspoken, challenging and thought provoking on 3AW, Sky News and the ABC and pens columns in the The Australian and Australian Financial Review.

In 2009 The Australian newspaper recognised him as one of the ten emerging leaders of Australian society, is a recipient of an Australian Leadership Award from the Australian Davos Connection, and was selected to participate in the inaugural Australian-ASEAN emerging leaders program.

Tim is currently a Director of Alfred Health and a Board of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. He formally served on the Board of Monash University as well as a number of service companies in the tertiary education sector.

He's worked in international development across South East Asia, consulting and politics, including delivering Australia's aid program for the Vietnamese government to host APEC and advising State and Federal politicians.

At University Tim was twice elected President of the Student Union.

Tim'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.

He has also completed specialist executive education on IP at the WIPO Worldwide Academy and international trade and global health diplomacy at the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développment, Geneva.

Areas of expertise: Climate change, trade, intellectual property and public health policy.