Fiona Fox (UK press officer)

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Fiona Fox (born 1964) is the director of the Science Media Centre and a former leading member of the the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Fiona was born into an Irish Catholic family in North Wales, the younger sister of Claire and Gemma. She attended St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint, and studied journalism at the Polytechnic of Central London.

Fiona 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. A total change of environment followed as Fiona became Head of Media at CAFOD, where she founded the Jubilee 2000 press group, which aimed to push serious Third World issues onto the media and political agendas.

In December 2001, Fiona was appointed the founding Director of the Science Media Centre, based at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, UK.

[edit] Controversy

The credibility of the Science Media Centre has been questioned [1], mainly on the basis of the political affiliations of Fiona Fox, and in particular her links to the Living Marxism group.

Fiona Fox has been accused of genocide denial in relation to a report she wrote in 1995 for the magazine Living Marxism on the violence in Rwanda.[2] She wrote this article using the name 'Fiona Foster'.

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Persondata
NAME Fox, Fiona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Director, Science Media Centre
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Flintshire, North Wales
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH