Michael Dixon at European Museum Advisors Conference Lisbon 2012
Channel: EMAC2012Lisboa
Date: 2012-11-25

Director of the Natural History Museum since 2004, he has overseen a period of record growth in attendance to over 4.9million visitors in 2011. He opened the £110millon life sciences complex, the Darwin Centre, to the public in 2009. He is the current Chair of the National Museums Directors' Conference. He was Director-General of the Zoological Society of London between 1999 and 2004, having previously worked in scientific, technical and medical publishing. He has a PhD from the University of York and studied zoology at Imperial College, London.