Tim Hollo is Executive Director of the Green Institute, where he leads thinking around ecological political philosophy and practice, and drives policy discussion around Rights of Nature, Universal Basic Income and participatory democracy. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), and is heavily involved in his local community, amongst other things establishing Canberra's first Buy Nothing Groups, setting up a little free library, and spearheading local mutual aid in the early pandemic.
He received almost a quarter of the vote running as the Greens Candidate for the seat of Canberra in the 2019 Federal election. Tim was previously Communications Director for Greens Leader Christine Milne, has been both a board member and campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, and has worked for 350, Lock the Gate and others.
In 2013, he founded Green Music Australia, an organisation which brings together his environmental activism with his experience as a musician, having recorded 8 albums and toured nationally and globally, from the National Folk Festival to New York’s Carnegie Hall with FourPlay String Quartet.
Tim’s writing on environmental, social and political issues has been widely published, including at the Griffith Review, Meanjin, the Guardian, ABC, Arena, Fairfax and Crikey. He is currently completing a book on ecological politics.