Sir Michael Dixon is Principal of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. In this role he is the central figure promoting the College’s life and work, championing its interests, ensuring collegial decision making and developing ambitious strategic plans.

Michael Dixon trained as a zoologist at Imperial College, London and then completed doctoral studies at the University of York, working on host location mechanisms in larval trematode parasites, most notably Schistosoma mansoni, causative organism of Bilharzia.

From 1980 to 1999 Michael worked in the world of scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing, for most of this time with John Wiley and Sons, but latterly as Managing Director of the then newly merged European based STM businesses for the Thomson Corporation. He subsequently oversaw the sale of these businesses in a change of strategic direction for Thomson and worked briefly in their business and professional division.