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Tim Dixon is an economic advisor and political strategist. His focus is to "unite divided societies" by building social movements for positive change [1][2][3].
Education
Tim Dixon attended Eastwood Public School then Trinity Grammar for high school. [4][5] He completed a Bachelor of Economics with 1st Class Honours from the University of Sydney in 1991, followed by a Bachelor of Laws at the University of New South Wales in 1997. [4]
Early Career: Government side of political process
While he was still at university, Dixon founded Leading Edge Education in 1994, a publishing and educational services business, acquired by Pearson in 2004.[6][7] He co-authored Australia’s two best-selling economics textbooks; Australia in the Global Economy 2020 and The Market Economy 2020. [6][8][9]
With an interest in new technologies, Tim Dixon served as the Director (1993-1999) then Chair (1999-2002) of the Australian Privacy Foundation. [10][11] After graduating from his post-graduate law degree, Dixon was given the position of Attorney and of Counsel at Baker & Mckenzie's information technology and communications practice from 1999-2004, one of the world's largest law firms.[10][12]Dixon simultaneously worked as a consultant at Galexia, a management consulting business, from 2001-2004, specialising in cybersecurity, privacy and authentication issues created by the introduction of new technologies to government, health care and business services. [13][14][15] Dixon was appointed the Non-Executive Director at Choice (Australian Consumers Association) in 2002, which is "the leading consumer advocacy group in Australia", a position he held for 2 years. [4][16]
In 2004, Tim Dixon began his role as the Senior Economic Advisor and Chief Speechwriter in the Australian federal government for the Leader of the Opposition (2004-2007), and then for the Prime Minister (2007-2010), Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
New Direction: Social Movement Builder for political change
1. Co-founder Purpose Europe (2011)
2. Non-Executive Director of Chifley Research Centre (2010-Present)
3. Non-Executive Director of International Budget Partnership (2015-present)
4. Co-founder of More in Common (2017-present)
5. Co-founder of The Syria Campaign and the Jo Cox Foundation
6. Regular conference speaker and writer; Agenda Contributor for World Economic Forum , Ted X Speaker, Contributor to The Guardian, CNN, Huffington Post, the Sydney Morning Herald, Fast Coexist
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