1. Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA was born on 12 March 1953 and is an Australian public intellectual currently serving as Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University.
Clive Hamilton is a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government, and is the founder and former executive director of The Australia Institute.
Clive Hamilton regularly appears in the Australian media and contributes to public policy debates.
Clive Hamilton graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts in history, psychology and pure mathematics in 1975 and completed a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney in 1979.
Clive Hamilton was an Overseas Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholar and completed his Doctorate at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in 1984.
Clive Hamilton's thesis was titled "A general equilibrium model of South Korean development".
Clive Hamilton was a postdoctoral fellow and research fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University from 1984 to 1988 and the director of the Graduate Program in the Economics of the Development at the National Centre for Development Studies of the Australian National University from 1986 to 1988.
Clive Hamilton founded the Australia Institute in 1993 and was executive director until 2008.
Clive Hamilton has been an academic visitor at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, a visiting lecturer at the Oxford Martin School and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford.
Clive Hamilton is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and was a visiting scholar of the Department of Land Economy of the University of Cambridge.
Clive Hamilton was a senior visiting fellow of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies of Yale University.
Clive Hamilton has written about the issue of climate change politics over a period of some 15 years.
Clive Hamilton argues that to believe anything else is to deny the climate change truth and engage in wishful thinking.
Clive Hamilton has written several books relating to consumerism and overconsumption.
Clive Hamilton argues that there is an emergence of new types of "alienation and exploitation", in the form of ravages of the free market, which have "robbed life of its meaning".
In February 2018 Clive Hamilton published the book Silent Invasion: China's influence in Australia on the increasing involvement of the Chinese Communist Party in Australian civil society and politics.
In June 2020, British businessman and advocate of closer China-UK economic relations Stephen Perry and the 48 Group Club launched a defamation lawsuit in a failed attempt to block the release of Clive Hamilton's Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World.
On 23 October 2009, Clive Hamilton was announced as the Australian Greens candidate for the by-election in the federal seat of Higgins.
Clive Hamilton ran against nine others for the seat, and came second, receiving 32.40 percent of primary votes and 39.77 percent of preferred votes.