Fiona Fox is an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), Founding Director of the Science Media Centre (SMC), and Chair of the Science and the Media Expert Group at the UK Government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The SMC improves public trust in science by persuading scientists to engage more effectively with controversial science stories in the media, and is the subject of an editorial in the journal Nature which pays tribute to Fiona's 'robust leadership'. She has a degree in journalism and 20 years of experience working in media relations for organisations including the Equal Opportunities Commission (now subsumed into the Equality and Human Rights Commission), the National Council for One Parent Families (now subsumed into Gingerbread), and the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. She is a columnist for the BBC Academy's College of Journalism, and she blogs at On Science and the Media. She has contributed chapters to Communicating Biological Sciences: Ethical and Metaphorical Dimensions (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA) and Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).