Adam D. Dixon is the Adam Smith Chair and Director of Panmure House, the historic final home of Adam Smith, where he is leading its transformation into a globally oriented economic and geopolitical think tank.
An internationally trained scholar and commentator, Professor Dixon has worked in the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, and studied in France, Spain, and the United States before completing his doctorate at the University of Oxford. His global background informs his distinctive perspective on how nations compete through finance, investment, and industrial strategy.
His work has guided conversations at the OECD, World Bank, European Commission, World Economic Forum, and the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds, drawing on experience across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Professor Dixon is the author of The Spectre of State Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Sovereign Wealth Funds: Between the State and the Market (2022), along with earlier books that continue to shape debates on global finance, investment, and economic governance.
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