Fiona Fox

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Fiona Bernadette Fox (born 12 November 1964) is a British writer and the chief executive of the Science Media Centre, an organization that helps scientists communicate with the media.

She was born in Mancot, near Hawarden in North Wales, into an Irish Catholic family and has two older sisters, including Claire Fox. She studied at the Polytechnic of Central London. Fox began her career as a journalist for Living Marxism, a magazine linked to the Revolutionary Communist Party. In 1995, LM published an article by Fox denying the Rwandan genocide. She then became head of media at CAFOD.

In December 2001 she founded the Science Media Centre at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London and has served as its chief executive since. Fox has been a regular media commentator and gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into UK press standards in 2012. She was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to science and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.

She is married to Kevin Rooney, a political commentator and teacher, and she supports Celtic F.C. Fox was formerly a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.