Education and Academic Career
Hamilton graduated from the Australian National University with a BA 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. He was an Overseas Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholar and completed his Doctorate at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in 1984.
He 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. From 1994 to 1997 he was a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and from 1997 to 2002 he was a Fellow in Public Policy at the Australian National University and he was a Visiting Fellow of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health in 2004.
From 1988 to 1990 he was a Senior Research Economist at the Bureau of Industry Economics of the Federal Department of Industry, Science and Resources (now the Productivity Commission).
Hamilton founded the Australia Institute in 1993 and was Executive Director until 2008.
He has been an Academic Visitor at Oxford Uehiro Centre, a Visiting Lecturer at the Oxford Martin School and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford.
He 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.
He was a Senior Visiting Fellow of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies of Yale University.
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