Dr. Patrick Dixon is often described in the media as Europe’s leading Futurist and has been ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive. Chairman of Global Change Ltd, he is author of twelve books, and has a Web TV site, which is visited by up to 500,000 different people a month (10 million since 1996,) and a radio/TV studio in his home from which he broadcasts worldwide for the BBC.
He advises many of the largest corporations in the world on global risks and opportunities, consumer trends, demographic changes and new technology. Clients include HSBC, UBS, Aviva, Allianz, Toshiba, Microsoft and GSK. In 1988 he launched the international AIDS agency ACET, following publication of his first book “The Truth about AIDS.” ACET is now an alliance of independent AIDS care and prevention programmes in places such as the UK, Ireland, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Thailand, India, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, China and Russia.