Keynote Speakers
Australia, Asia Pacific
Dr Clive Hamilton
Executive Director, The Australia Institute.
Australia
Dr Clive Hamilton is Executive Director of The Australia
Institute, an influential independent policy research
centre. He is also a Visiting Fellow in Public Policy
at the ANU and an Adjunct Professor at the University
of Technology, Sydney. He holds a BA in pure mathematics
from the ANU, a BEc. (First Class Honours) from the
University of Sydney and a PhD in economics from the
University of Sussex.
Dr Hamilton has many years experience in economic
research and policy evaluation, especially in the area
of natural resource management and environment. He was
an academic economist at the ANU and was the founding
head of the Research Branch of the Resource Assessment
Commission where he developed and supervised an innovative
and controversial program of studies of environmental
impacts of resource uses, including work on economic
and environmental valuation techniques.
He has worked in Indonesia, Nepal, South Korea and
South Africa and served on a UN Groups of Experts on
Least Developed Countries.
Dr Hamilton has published widely on development, trade
policy, industry economics, environmental issues, community
values and ethics. His latest book, Growth Fetish,
will be published by Allen & Unwin in early April.
Dr Hamilton appears frequently in the media commenting
on issues as diverse as academic freedom, climate change
policy, tax reform, and competition policy, measures
of well-being and Australian political developments.
He has been described in the press as Australia's
most influential economist on the left and Australia's
leading environmental economist.
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