24 Facts About Tim Jarvis

Tim Jarvis AM was born on May 1966 and is a British-Australian environmental explorer, adventurer, climber, author and documentary filmmaker, with Masters qualifications in environmental science and environmental law.

Tim Jarvis is well-known public speaker who presents regularly around the world.

Tim Jarvis formerly worked as a Senior Associate – Sustainability to global engineering solutions firm Arup, and has advised the World Bank, AusAID, and the Asian Development Bank on multilateral aid projects.

Since 2019, Tim Jarvis has lobbied to establish an East Antarctic Marine Protected Area together with Save Our Marine Life and the Pew Charitable Trust.

Tim Jarvis authored the forward to the report The East Antarctic Marine Park: Maintaining Australia's Legacy, produced in 2019.

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Tim Jarvis says he is "committed to finding pragmatic solutions to global environmental sustainability issues", and as a public speaker he talks regularly about motivation and leadership to both individuals and organisations.

Since October 2017, Tim Jarvis has been Corporate Ambassador - Sustainability for the PICA Group of Companies.

Tim Jarvis is committed to "greening" the footprint of the industry.

In November 2019, Tim Jarvis, was made AIA Insurance Vitality Ambassador, providing focus of the impact of climate change on the health sector.

Tim Jarvis is the author of The Unforgiving Minute, which recounts his expeditions to the North and South Poles as well as the crossing of several Australian deserts.

Tim Jarvis is contributing author of the coursebook Frozen Planet produced by Open University, a course linked with the BBC's Frozen Planet series that aired in 2011.

Tim Jarvis was recognised by the Australian Geographic Society, winning its "Spirit of Adventure" medal for his kayak journey across Lake Eyre, Australia's largest salt lake, in 2004.

On 20 November 2014, Tim Jarvis was announced as WWF-Australia Global Ambassador, and was made a Governor of WWF in 2019.

Tim Jarvis was made a fellow of the Yale World Fellows Program for 2009.

Tim Jarvis was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010 for "service to conservation and the environment, particularly through advisory roles to developing countries regarding land sustainability and resource management, as an explorer, and to the community".

Tim Jarvis was awarded Adventurer of the Year 2013 by the Australian Geographic Society and was voted Person of the Year 2014 by Classic Boat magazine for his successful re-enactment of Shackleton's 1916 Journey, the so-called 'double' comprising both sea and land legs.

Tim Jarvis received the Sydney Institute of Marine Science's Emerald award in 2013 for services to the environment.

In 2014 Jarvis was a patron of NaturePlaySA, an organisation established to increase the time children spend in unstructured play outdoors and in nature to improve their fitness, problem solving ability, emotional resilience and mental wellbeing.

In 2017, Tim Jarvis was made a Bragg Fellow by the Royal Institution of Australia.

Tim Jarvis wanted to find out if the story of Mawson was physically possible.

The project, led by Tim Jarvis, was the first successful recreation of the 'double' voyage using only period gear.

Tim Jarvis was awarded the Royal Institute of Navigation's Certificate of Achievement, in recognition of his leadership of the Shackleton Epic Expedition Team.

Tim Jarvis founded the 25zero Project to highlight the retreat of glaciers on the world's 25 glaciated equatorial mountains.

Tim Jarvis assembled a team of mountaineers and film-makers to join him in advance of COP21 to document the impact of climate change and to communicate how each of the 25 equatorial mountains will lose its glacier 'within an average 25 years'.