Emma is a partner in McKinsey’s London Office and leads the McKinsey’s global work on Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDRs). Emma spends much of her time working with ambitious organisations looking to develop, finance and buy CDRs to create the gigatonne industry the IPCC forecasts we need to realise a 1.5C pathway and enable net zero. To this she brings a background in strategy, corporate finance and experience in serving clients across the interface of the public and private sectors, including in the major capital project space. She leads our programme of research on how to scale the CDR market, and she regularly publishes our perspectives on CDRs with McKinsey Sustainability. McKinsey Quarterly and the Harvard Business Review have published Emma’s insights on strategic topics. 

Emma holds a first-class honours degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Cambridge University and MBAs from Columbia and London Business Schools. She first joined McKinsey as a Business Analyst in London. She later worked on international development strategies with governments, UN agencies, and non-governmental organisations before returning to McKinsey.

Emma is a trustee of Sands (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity).