Fiona Bernadette Fox (born 12 November 1964) is a British writer and chief executive of the

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Career

Fox became head of media at

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in 1995. In December 2001 Fox was appointed the founding director of the Science Media Centre, based at the

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in London and its current chief executive. In that capacity she has been a regular media commentator and gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards in the UK in 2012.

Awards

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

Personal life

Fox was born into an Irish Catholic family in

Mancot Mancot is a village in Flintshire, Wales, approximately 1 mile from Queensferry, and Hawarden and 6 miles from Chester. According to the 2001 Census, Mancot had a population of 3,462. In 1849 the population of the village was 282. Followin ...

, near

Hawarden Hawarden (; cy, Penarlâg) is a village, community and electoral ward in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England border and is home to Hawarden Castle. In the 2011 census the ward of the same name had ...

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. She has two older sisters, one of whom is

Claire Fox Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley (born 5 June 1960), is a British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician who sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer. She is the director and founder of the think tank Institute of ...

. She is a supporter of

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and is married to political commentator and teacher Kevin Rooney. She was formerly a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.LobbyWatch profile of Fox
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