Councillor, 2020 to 2024, including role as Mayor, 2024, Bayside City Council
Served overseas as Programme Manager, United Nations Volunteers in Peacekeeping Missions, including Timor Leste, Liberia, Sudan and South Sudan, for over 20 years. As a part of the management team Fiona was able to observe a diversity of leadership and organisational approaches from leaders within civil society, the United Nations, diplomatic core and world political figures. Fiona’s career spanned pre-fabricated “dongas” in the Sahara Desert of Sudan to the skyscrapers of New York. Learnings were consolidated at the United Nations mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica, obtaining a Masters of Environment, Development and Peace. As Mayor, she has promoted acting with kindness, equality, participation and understanding of our interconnectedness and interdependence on each other and the environment.