Ellen Dixon is a former Steering Committee Member for the Global Student Forum (2021-2022; 2022-2023). She currently serves as the Executive Committee Member for student unions for the Asia-Pacific region for the UNESCO SDG4 Youth & Student Network, where she was elected to the Education 2030 High-Level Steering Committee. She is also the representative to the Global Education Monitoring Report Advisory Board, where she has served on their Strategy Reference Group, held two of their youth consultancies, and hosted the first International Day of Digital Learning.
Ellen is the former 2023 National President of the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations. Ellen has represented on the two highest quality bodies for universities in New Zealand, as appointed by the Vice Chancellors’ Committee; she has been appointed by the Tertiary Education Board of Commissioners; and, she has represented on two Ministerial panels. Ellen is a Wellington Doctoral Scholar and a Massey Scholar, holding a first-class Bachelor of Arts in Sociolinguistics from Massey University, a first-class Masters of International Relations & Diplomacy from the University of Canterbury, and is pursuing a PhD in Critical Theory.
