Spouse(s) Kevin Rooney Children Declan (1999) Known for Science Media Centre | Name Fiona Fox Siblings Claire Fox Role Press officer | |
Born 12 November 1964 (age 59) ( 1964-11-12 ) Mancot, Wales Alma mater Polytechnic of Central London Occupation Journalist
Press secretary
Public relations Employer Science Media Centre
Previously:
NCOPF
Equal Opportunities Commission
CAFOD
Thames Polytechnic Website www.sciencemediacentre.org/blog
www.guardian.co.uk/profile/fox-fiona Awards Order of the British Empire Profiles | ||
Education University of Westminster | ||
Fiona Bernadette Fox OBE (born 1964) is a British writer. She is the director of the Science Media Centre and a former leading member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
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Education
Fox was educated at St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint, and the Polytechnic of Central London where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Journalism.
Career
Fox started her career at Thames Polytechnic as an assistant PR officer. From there she worked for six years at the Equal Opportunities Commission where she became a senior press officer, followed by two years running the media operation at the National Council for One Parent Families.
Fox became head of media at CAFOD in 1995, where she adopted the Jubilee 2000 press group, which aimed to push serious Third World issues onto the media and political agendas.
She has been 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. She wrote this article using the pseudonym 'Fiona Foster'.
In December 2001 Fox was appointed the founding director of the Science Media Centre, based at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London.
Awards
She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to science.
Personal life
Fiona was born (1964) into an Irish Catholic family in Mancot, North Wales, the younger sister of Claire (born 1960) and Gemma (born 1963, adopted into Fox family in 1964). She is a supporter of Celtic F.C. and is married to political commentator and teacher Kevin Rooney. Their son, Declan, was born in 1999. They live in London.