Jo Fox is the Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Public Engagement) and Dean, School of Advanced Study, University of London. The School of Advanced Study is the UK’s national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities. It has eight specialist research institutes, four internationally-recognised research libraries, and organises the UK’s only Festival of Humanities research, Being Human. Her portfolio includes the University of London’s Senate House Library, a world-leading research library with over 2 million items, and the University of London in Paris, with unique programmes in French Studies and International Politics.

Prior to her current role, Jo was the first female Director of the Institute of Historical Research, first female Professor of Modern History and first female Head of Department at Durham University, where she began her academic career in 1999.  She is an historian of propaganda, mis-and dis-information and psychological warfare. She has previously served as the Honorary Communications Director of the Royal Historical Society and early research panel Chair at the Wellcome Trust. She is a National Teaching Fellow (2007), a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Manufactures and the Arts (FRSA). She currently serves on the Governing Board at the Royal Academy of Music.