Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra. He has held various visiting academic positions, including at the University of Oxford, Sciences Po, and Yale University. For 14 years he was the executive director of the Australia Institute, a progressive think tank he founded. His books include Growth Fetish, Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change and Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the Anthropocene.  His book on China’s influence in Australia, Silent Invasion, became a focus of public debate when publishing companies decided to reject it for fear of retribution from Beijing. When published in February 2018 it became an immediate best-seller. In 2020, with German Sinologist Mareike Ohlberg, he wrote a follow-up book: Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World. A best-seller in Germany, Australia and Britain, it has been translated into Chinese, Swedish, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean.  His memoir, Provocateur: A life of ideas in action, was published in September 2022.
