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Tim Dixon is an economic advisor and political strategist who works to "unite divided societies" by building social movements to create change. He was born in Australia and is now based in London. He has helped start and grow organisations around the world "to protect civilians in Syria, engage citizens in the peace process in Colombia, address modern day slavery, promote gun control in the US, reduce inequality, and engage faith communities in social justice".

Education
Tim Dixon attended Eastwood Public School then Trinity Grammar for high school. 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.

Career in economics and law
While he was still at university, Dixon founded Leading Edge Education in 1994, a publishing and educational services business, acquired by Pearson in 2004. He co-authored Australia’s two best-selling economics textbooks; Australia in the Global Economy 2020 and The Market Economy 2020.

With an interest in new technologies, Tim Dixon served as the Director (1993-1999) then Chair (1999-2002) of the Australian Privacy Foundation. 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. 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. 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.

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 Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.

New Career Direction
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

"He is on the boards of the International Budget Partnership, the Jo Cox Foundation, Purpose Europe, the Syria Campaign, the Chifley Research Centre and faith-based justice organisation Sojourners."