Fiona Millar is a British journalist and campaigner on education and parenting issues.
Education
She attended Camden School for Girls, then a selective grammar school, on Sandall Road in Kentish Town, north London. She studied economics and economic history at University College London and joined the Mirror Group"s graduate training scheme in 1980.
Career
She is a former adviser to Cherie Blair. She contributes to Education Guardian and the Local Schools Network website. She would later become a critic of grammar schools.
She was a freelance journalist between 1998 and 1995 and was an adviser to Cherie Blair from 1995-2003.
She is vice-chair of Comprehensive Future, an organisation that promotes the perceived advantages of comprehensive schools in the United Kingdom. Her children attend state schools in the Camden LEA, and she is a governor of the William Ellis boys" comprehensive school and a governor of Parliament Hill School. Millar"s articles have appeared regularly in the education supplement of The Guardian newspaper since 2003.
She was Chair of Trustees of the Family and Parenting Institute until 2010 and now chairs the National Youth Arts Trust. That same year she wrote The Secret World of the Working Mother, a book about finding the balance between working and being a mother.
In 2010 she helped form the Local Schools Network, a pro-state schools pressure group
Grammar schools: right or wrong?.