Matthew Dixon, International Engineering
and IT Skills Consultant and Adviser, BCS
/ Engineering Council
Following a Cambridge PhD in Control Engineering and eight
years at an international Policy Research Institute, Matthew Dixon has been
working in and around the UK Information Technology industry since 1984. He led the National Computing Centre’s
Knowledge Management Systems technology-transfer business and carried out a
number of strategic IT-based learning systems projects on a freelance basis in
the late 1980s. Later, he was appointed
Chief Executive of the National Association of Information Technology Centres
(“ITeCs”) and went on to become International Consultant at the Engineering
Council. In 1997 he was recruited to
contribute to the DTI-funded Action2000 Skills Programme, and more recently was
appointed Director, Research and Strategy at the IT National Training
Organisation.
He is an active member of the British Computer Society,
having served on three BCS Boards, and continues to chair its Training and
Career Development Accreditation Committee.
He is currently working on the international dimension of the IT skills
issue. He continues as International
Consultant to the Engineering Council (UK), and is currently EMTA Senior
Research Fellow in the