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Dr Michael Dixon

Director, Natural History Museum

Dr Michael Dixon took over as the Director of The Natural History Museum in June 2004.

Dr Dixon was previously Director General of The Zoological Society of London, with responsibility for London Zoo and Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, alongside the organisation's worldwide conservation activities and its scientific research. At ZSL he spearheaded a £60 million project to develop a major conservation aquarium in the London Docklands area, and has unified the scientific and visitor-facing activities of the organisation.

Before taking up his position at ZSL, Dr Dixon worked for twenty years in the scientific, technical and medical publishing industry with Pitman, John Wiley & Sons and most recently the Thomson Corporation. These positions followed a BSc in Zoology from Imperial College and a DPhil from the University of York, for which Dr Dixon studied larval parasite host location behaviour.