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Emma brings experience from the NGO, business and consulting and assurance sectors to her role as Technical Manager at the Nature Positive Initiative. She has worked with companies across the globe on developing sustainability strategies, science-based targets and sustainability metrics and disclosures. In her previous role at ICMM, Emma helped lead the development of the first sector-wide commitments on contributing to a nature-positive future and the development of the Taskforce for Nature-Related Financial Disclosures metrics for the Mining and Metals Sector. She has also worked with the Science-Based Targets Network as the interface between the technical development and corporate engagement teams, and in-house as Sustainable Business Manager for a multinational beverage company. Emma is a passionate conservationist and in her free time works on the ground with a small community forest restoration charity in Sri Lanka.

Emma holds a BA MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London and recently completed a certificate in the Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of Tropical Forests from the Yale School of Environment.