Keith Dixon

Keith Dixon presently lives in Christchurch. The author's family ties are to Northumbria; and his wife's to Nikunau Island. They have been members of I-Nikunau or I-Kiribati diasporic communities on Te Ika-a-Maui, Tarawa, Great Britain and Te Waipounamu. The author has worked for organisations as diverse as Wolverhampton, Cannock and Nottinghamshire Councils, the UK Government Department for International Development, the Institute of Public Administration of Papua New Guinea, Kiribati Institute of Technology, Kiribati Centre of the University of the South Pacific, and Massey, Keele and the Open Universities. He has been at the University of Cantey Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha since 2007. As well as work on Kiribati, his academic outputs have mainly concerned organisational change, social responsibility, governments, universities, hospitals, mining corporations and accountant education.