Managing Director, International Intellectual Property & Technology Consulting (IIPTC), London

Allen Dixon is a leading lawyer and international specialist in the intellectual property and information technology field, who has advised high techno logy and traditional content companies and industries in various capacities for more than 20 years. His experience has included senior legal positions in companies and trade associations on three continents. Mr. Dixon worked in General Counsel and Assistant General Counsel positions in technology companies in Asia, the U.S. and Europe between 1986 and 1994. He was European counsel and partner at the private law firm Covington & Burling in London, England, from 1994 through 1999. From 2000 to 2005 he served as executive director and general counsel of the international recording industry association IFPI in London. Since 2006, he has run the IIPTC consultancy, concentrating on intellectual property and high-technology issues, based in London. Allen holds a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, from the University of Maryland, and a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from American University. He is a specialist editor of the major UK copyright law treatise, Copinger & Skone James on Copyright, and speaks and writes regularly on intellectual property matters.