Dr Tim Anderson is Director of the Sydney-based Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies. He worked at Australian universities for more than 30 years, teaching, researching and publishing on development, human rights and self-determination in the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East. In the 1970s and 80s he was framed twice on terrorist charges but later cleared and paid compensation. In 2019 he was kicked out of the University of Sydney for offending its Israeli sponsors.

He has published more than 70 academic articles and chapters in a wide range of journals and books, as well as many online essays. His most recent books are: Land and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea (2015), The Dirty War on Syria (2016), now published in ten languages (English, German, Arabic, Swedish, Bosnian, Spanish, Farsi, Italian, Greek and Icelandic); Countering Propaganda of the Dirty War on Syria (2017); Axis of Resistance: towards an independent Middle East (2019), in English, Farsi and Arabic; The Pandemic and Independent Countries (2020); West Asia After Washington (2023); and (as editor and co-author) Understanding Yemen (2026).