Emma Gawen

Emma Gawen leads the Americas business at Public Digital – a global digital transformation consultancy. Emma has extensive experience working with governments and multilateral organizations around the world. She advises senior government and political leaders on digital strategy, creating the conditions for success for digital & data teams, and organization design informed by internet-era ways of working.

She has led research projects for Public Digital on topics including: best practices from leading economies in government digital transformation, how to build digital government teams, operating models for smart cities, and adoption of open source for governments.

Prior to Public Digital, Emma worked as a senior civil servant in the UK and New Zealand governments, leading their early digital transformation efforts. She founded the Digital Nations group in 2012 when working for the UK Government Digital Service. She started her career at the UK Ministry of Justice.