Tim Wilson
Director of Climate Change Policy and the IP and Free Trade Unit
Tim Wilson is Director of Climate Change Policy and the IP and Free Trade Unit. He is also a Senior Fellow at New York's Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a Board member of Alfred Health and serves on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's IP Industry Consultative group.
He regularly appears on Australian and international television, radio and in the print media, and previously co-hosted ABC News 24's Snapshot segment. Tim's worked in international aid and development across South East Asia, consulting and politics.
In 2009 The Australian newspaper recognised him as one of the ten emerging leaders of Australian society as part of its Next 100 series, is a recipient of an Australian Leadership Award and was selected to participate in the inaugural Australian-ASEAN Emerging Leaders Program.
At University Tim was twice-elected Student Union President as well as to the University's Board of Directors. He'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. Tim has also studied global health diplomacy at Geneva's Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développment.