Failure isn’t always a bad thing, it’s how you grow from it! Fiona Reilly, Managing Director, FiRe Energy

Fiona Reilly is Managing Director of FiRe Energy and a Strategic Advisory Board member of the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) and Non-Executive Director of Ansaldo Nuclear.

Fiona grew up in a village called Reed in the Ribble Valley and went to school in Burnley. She now lives in Weighbridge.

Fiona studied Law at university before completing a master’s level with International Business, Trade and Tax at The University of Manchester and qualified as lawyer in Lancashire. 

Throwing herself in at the deep end, she joined Alstom as their Company Solicitor and Commercial Counsel reporting directly to the Commercial Director and to the Board before moving to Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Associate where she worked for 15 years.

During her career, Fiona has worked on some large nuclear cases, including advising on the proposed sale of UKAEA and advising International Nuclear Services on a number of politically sensitive issues relating to the storage and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and waste and MOX fuel. Fiona has also advised on the structuring, investment, financing and implementation of nuclear new build programmes not only in the UK but also in the Middle East and the Russian Federation.

In 2018, at the request of BEIS, Fiona Chaired the Expert Finance Working Group on Small Reactors (EFWG to create the EFWG and develop the programme for the group. She led a series of meetings (hearing presentations from a number of potential vendors) including discussions on available finance and the risks associated with small nuclear. In conclusion she drafted and presented the report to Ministers.

At the start of 2019, Fiona established FiRe Energy Limited to deliver advisory work to the energy and infrastructure industries providing strategic and project advisory services to a wide range of public and private sector stakeholders.

For more information visit: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fiona-reilly-1992975