Fiona Fox

Fiona Bernadette Fox OBE (born 12 November 1964) is a British writer. She is the director of the Science Media Centre[2] and a former leading member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.[4][5][6][7][8]

Fiona Fox
Born (1964-11-12) 12 November 1964[1]
Mancot, Wales[1]
Alma materPolytechnic of Central London
OccupationJournalist
Press secretary
Public relations
EmployerScience Media Centre
Previously:
NCOPF
Equal Opportunities Commission
CAFOD
Thames Polytechnic[1]
Known forScience Media Centre[2]
Spouse(s)Kevin Rooney[1]
AwardsOBE[3]
Websitewww.sciencemediacentre.org/blog
www.theguardian.com/profile/fox-fiona

Career

Fox became head of media at CAFOD in 1995,[1] where she adopted the Jubilee 2000 press group, which aimed to push serious Third World issues onto the media and political agendas.

She was accused of genocide denial by Chris McGreal in relation to a report she wrote in 1995 for the magazine Living Marxism on the violence in Rwanda,[9] which she wrote under the pseudonym Fiona Foster.[10]

In December 2001 Fox was appointed the founding director of the Science Media Centre, based at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London.[2]

Awards

Fox was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to science.[3]

Personal life

Fox was born into an Irish Catholic family in Mancot, near Hawarden, North Wales,[1] the younger sister of Claire (born 1960) and Gemma (born 1963, adopted into Fox family in 1964).[11] She is a supporter of Celtic F.C.[1] and is married to political commentator and teacher Kevin Rooney.[1]

References
  1. "FOX, Fiona, (Mrs Kevin Rooney)". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. Callaway, E. (2013). "Science media: Centre of attention: Fiona Fox and her Science Media Centre are determined to improve Britain's press. Now the model is spreading around the world". Nature. 499 (7457): 142. doi:10.1038/499142a.
  3. "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 10.
  4. Chemistry World: Comment: Playing fast and loose with science (November 2006) - Following the release of the WWF report ‘Chain of contamination: the food link’, John Henry and Fiona Fox comment on the study, and its coverage in the media
  5. Chemistry World: Nanotech - The Next Controversy alike GM? (February 2004)
  6. "On Science and the Media". fionafox.blogspot.com.
  7. LobbyWatch profile of Fox
  8. "Fiona Fox - The Guardian". the Guardian.
  9. Chris McGreal, "Genocide? What genocide?", The Guardian, 20 March 2000
  10. Turner, Jenny (8 July 2010). "Who Are They?: Jenny Turner reports from the Battle of Ideas". London Review of Books. 32 (13): 3–8. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  11. Sunday Times: Relative Values Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters (May 2006) - An interview with Claire and Fiona Fox
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