Emma Cox is a sustainability and finance leader with over 35 years corporate and public sector advisory experience and is a qualified chartered accountant and chartered management consultant. Previously she was Global Climate Leader and UK partner at PwC, responsible for driving the development and delivery of leading-edge climate solutions to clients around the world and representing PwC on external climate and nature related issues and platforms. She is a visiting fellow at Oxford Saïd Business School’s Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Emma was Head of Purpose for PwC UK and led both its client facing and internal sustainability and climate change teams. Her experience is based across the private, public and NGO sectors, focusing on the need for systemic solutions to address the intertwined challenges of climate, nature and inequality. An engineer and accountant by training, she previously set up and co-led PwC UK’s structuring services deals practice and was Head of People for PwC’s Advisory practice. She was a founder member of PwC UK’s Diversity Council and a Trustee of the PwC Foundation.