Tim is a novelist, political commentator, singer/songwriter and performer, sportsman and pugilist. He has ridden around Colombia, Western Europe and Australia on a motorcycle, and has worked on humanitarian causes around the world and set up a reforestation programme in Haiti.

 After finishing high school on Sydney’s North Shore in 2000, he spent a year in Uruguay where he learnt Spanish, and came back to complete a degree in Economics from Sydney University. He lived the corporate life until he took off again, this time to Haiti in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake. Over four months, he cleared rubble by hand from Leogane where 80% of the buildings had collapsed and 30,000 people died. Rounding out that trip he toured through Guatemala and Colombia on a motorbike then made his way back to Sydney.

By now, it was 2011 and he was convinced more needed to be done to move from fossil fuels to renewables; he started thinking of ways to influence the climate change debate. Always a pragmatic environmentalist he did a stint roughnecking in the Queensland CSG fields while he completed a master’s degree focusing on climate change and world energy politics from UNSW. In his spare time he wrote articles on climate change geopolitics, which were published on various websites including news.com.

It was during this period he was inspired to dramatise the impact of climate change; scientists and commentators discuss the need to save the environment, but nobody talks about how climate change will have a personal impact on us all as individuals (beyond the standard political fear mongering around higher electricity prices and jobs). He believes that making climate change personal was the best way to influence public perception in a useful way. So, he got writing.

Meantime, 2014 Tim packed his guitar, keyboard and a suitcase full of clothes and moved to London to live and work. About this time, an old friend from Haiti got in touch with a plan to reforest the country, and in January 2015 Tim started OsierCarbon, with the goal of achieving just that. OsierCarbon has now planted 20,000 trees, built a nursery and now has several permanent employees (and two dozen chickens).

Fitness is central to his routine and you can usually find him at a gym or a park training. He loves boxing and has had four fights, and was twice New South Wales state surfboat rowing champion for Whale Beach SLSC when he was younger and fitter.

Tim now works full time at an engineering firm in West London. In his spare time, apart from running his reforestation business, he plays in a cover band in pubs around London, and is searching for a publisher for his debut novel