Fiona Mullen is the Director of Sapienta Economics. She has been providing economic analysis and research to an international audience for over 20 years. She was the Cyprus contributor for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) for 15 years (2001-15) and has served as the economy adviser to the UN’s Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus (the UN good offices mission) from April 2008 until February 2016, and again since late 2017, advising on the economic aspects of a settlement of the Cyprus problem including property-related issues.Mullen is the author of several publications on the economy of Cyprus. Prior to living in Cyprus, Mullen was Director of the flagship Country Reports and Country Profiles at the EIU and Senior Europe Analyst. She was the Senior Analyst from 2002 until 2006 at the Financial Mirror, Cyprus’ only financial newspaper.Fiona Mullen has also produced in-depth economic analysis on a wide range of Middle Eastern and North African countries.In 2009, Fiona Mullen was awarded the first Stelios Award for Business Cooperation in Cyprus together with her Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot associates, Praxoula Antoniadou Kyriacou and Ozlem Oguz for their research into quantifying the commercial opportunities of a solution to the Cyprus problem (see publications). The team became known as “The Three Ladies”. In 2017, she co-founded Facilitas Advisory, a media communications and government relations advisory firm.Fiona Mullen has been frequently interviewed on the Cyprus economy, including by The Economist, the Financial Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, ThomsonReuters, the Wall Street Journal, Al-Jazeera, BBC World TV, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, CNN and DukasCopy TV among others. Fiona Mullen comments regularly on economic matters in the Cypriot press and in October 2008 was invited to write a guest column in the Financial Times.