Risk Management Conference - Aug 14-16 2024
Speaker
Edward Vaughan Dixon, head of sustainability, private markets, Aviva Investors

Edward Vaughan Dixon is the head of sustainability for Aviva Investors’ £40bn private markets platform, leading a team that delivers environmental, social and governance integration and engagement across multiple asset classes — including direct real estate, private credit and private equity — at all stages of the investment lifecycle.

Dixon has more than 22 years of industry experience, starting his career in 2002 as a carpenter and progressing through construction project management into sustainability consulting and corporate sustainability roles at Marks and Spencer, Mace Group Ltd. and Landsec Securities Group. He’s an honourary senior visiting fellow at Bayes, one of the U.K.’s highest-ranking business schools, a non-executive director at 5Y Technology and a member of the advisory board at The Land Collective, a community interest company. He holds an undergraduate degree in project management, and a master’s of business administration with distinction from Bayes Business School in London, England. Dixon has completed the executive sustainability leadership course at the TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard, and the Corporate Affairs Academy at Saïd Business School in Oxford, England.