Patrick Dixon is one of Europe's leading futurists, and has been ranked one of the world’s 20 most influential business thinkers, having forecasted many of the world's important trends over the last 30 years.
Dixon is the Chairman of  a growth strategy and forecasting company; he is also the author of 16 books; and he is a physician. His books include Futurewise, SustainAgility, The Genetic Revolution and Building a Better Business. His newest book is entitled The Future of Almost Everything.
Dixon advises boards and senior teams on the strategic impact of global trends, risk and innovation on issues such as economic trends, digital marketing, mobile payments and banking, artificial intelligence, cyber security, bitcoin and blockchain. His expertise also spans customer loyalty and consumer shifts looking at branding, demographics, emerging markets and other such trends.
Dixon worked as Group Strategy Director for Acromas which owned the AA and Saga. He was non-executive director of Acromas Health Care which delivers as a group over 40 million home care visits a year across the UK, 24 hour live-in care, out-of-hours medical cover, hospital-at-home, end-of-life, dental, forensic medicine, nursing and prison health.
Dixon is founder of Global Innovators, accelerating smart, highly innovative companies to grow globally.  He also founded the international AIDS agency ACET, which started in 1988 with care and prevention programmes in many of the poorest nations such as Uganda and Zimbabwe.