Thinethavone "Tim" Soutphommasane (/suːtˈpɒməsɑːn/ soot-POM-ə-sahn; born 1982)[1] is an Australian academic, social commentator and former public servant.

[1] He has previously been a political staffer for Bob Carr, a columnist with The Age and The Australian newspapers, a lecturer at Sydney and Monash Universities, and a research fellow with the Per Capita think tank.

[citation needed] He was one of six chief investigators on an Australian Research Council Linkage project studying the history of ANZAC Day.

While living in England, Soutphommasane was a freelance journalist, contributing blog entries to The Guardian and The Financial Times, as well as opinion pieces and reviews to The Spectator, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Loosely based on research undertaken toward his doctoral thesis, the book argues that people with progressive politics must re-engage with ideas of patriotism and national identity, which Soutphommasane claims were surrendered to the right during the Prime Ministership of John Howard.