Head of Editorial Partnerships + Special Projects, BBC World Service Group
Emily leads high profile projects across the BBC. These include Crossing Divides - a pan BBC multi-platform season about bringing people together in a fragmented world across lines of faith, politics, ethnicity, and generation as well as SoICanBreathe – a BBC News multi-platform season about tackling air pollution. She also directs the BBC Komla Dumor Award for African Journalists. Emily leads the solutions-focused journalism project at the BBC, kick-starting a culture change inside the organisation. This has been achieved via seasons, and delivering workshops from Nairobi to Delhi to Birmingham, toolkits and blogs and speaking at many events and conferences. She previously served as an award-winning broadcaster and editor at the BBC, reporting and producing for the BBC across 5 continents. Emily has been a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre, Said Business School, University of Oxford, a Senior Advisor to the Skoll Foundation and has written for The Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Economist and the FT, plus hosts panels globally. Emily is also a BBC Executive Coach, and on the board of The Wingate Foundation.
Arresting Deforestation • Clean Energy • Clean Water • Early Childhood to Primary Education • Economic Opportunity • Education • Environmental Sustainability • Health • Health Delivery • Human Rights • International Justice • Livelihoods • Living Conditions • Peace • Peace and Human Rights • Post-Secondary Education • Responsible Supply Chains • Sanitation • Secondary Education • Standards • Sustainable Markets • Water Management • Women's and Girls' Education • Youth Job Skills
Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa
