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Gavin Wilson (born 20th February 1959) is a writer and analyst for IBM. He is also a director of IBM UK Pensions Trust.

Education
Wilson won a scholarship to Oundle. Between 1977 and 1980 he was an exhibitioner at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and graduated with an honours degree in Mathematics. In 1987 he was awarded an MBA from the London Business School.

At IBM
Wilson advises IBM on its investments and competitive strategies, and has written a series of regular internal publications, including weekly.400, eServer observer, Northings and Top Bits. He writes the monthly BeeP for IBM business partners. Wilson has made significant contributions to the theory of proximity mapping as a means of understanding markets and competitive situations.

Since 2002, Wilson has been a director of the IBM UK Pensions Trust, helping to steer the organisation through a difficult period in which the employer acted to limit its liabilities, while requiring employees to increase their contributions to the defined benefit schemes.

Other interests
In the 1980s, Wilson invented the chess opening called the Kingston Defence -- 1.e4 e6 2.d4 f5?! -- and published a monograph on the subject in 1989.