Clive Hamilton

Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and public intellectual. For 14 years, until February 2008, he was the Executive Director of The Australia Institute, a progressive think tank he founded. He is now Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra.

He has published on a wide range of subjects but is best known for his books, a number of which have been best-sellers. They include Growth Fetish (2003), Affluenza (with Richard Denniss, 2005), Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change, (2010), Earthmasters (2013), What Do We Want? The story of protest in Australia (2016) and Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the Anthropocene (2017).

In 2018, his controversial and influential best-seller, Silent Invasion: China's influence in Australia, was published by Hardie Grant. A follow-up book, written with Mareike Ohlberg, Hidden Hand: How the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world, was published by Hardie Grant and Oneworld in 2020. It was an instant best-seller.

His memoir, Provocateur: A life of ideas in action, will be published in September 2022.

Clive has held visiting academic positions at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, University College London and Sciences Po in Paris.