Fiona Fox

Fiona Fox, is chief executive and founding director of the Science Media Centre, an indispensable resource for science journalists in the UK, providing scientific context and comment from some of the UK’s top scientists for many major news stories.

She is an outspoken champion for openness in science and is author of Beyond the Hype: The inside story of science’s biggest media controversies.”

Published in April 2022, the book is part memoir and part manifesto for change – particularly the need to separate communication of scientific research from government communications.

Fiona has a degree in journalism and many years of experience working in media relations for high profile national organisations. She is a regular commentator on science in the media and has received many accolades for her services to science, including an OBE, honorary fellowships of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Biology and the British Pharmacology Society, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol.