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Fiona joined the University of Liverpool in 1992 as a Lecturer in Law, and was promoted to a Chair in 2007. She was Head of Department from 2008-2010, when she became Dean of the newly-formed Schol of Law and Social Justice, before moving to her current role in 2014.
Fiona is a Professor of Law, specialising in international and EU law, in particular foreign investment law and gender equality law and policy. Fiona has a particular expertise in gender mainstreaming and how this is implemented in international institutions, the EU, and in individual states. This included work in 2015 for the European Parliament on the EU's 2015-2020 Gender Equality Strategy and, in particular, on the potential to introduce gender budgeting into the Strategy as a meaningful way to advance gender equality.
Fiona is the Chair of the Race Equality Charter Self-Assessment Team at the University of Liverpool. She is also a Non-Executive Director at Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust and Chair of the Board of the University of Liverpool Press.
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