Who are we? 

A former elite athlete herself, Emily is the founder and Director of Global Sports Policy Ltd. 

 

As a rower for the Canadian National Rowing Team, Emily has experienced the highs and lows of elite sport, and how appropriate policies and procedures can help or hinder the athlete in both performance and wellbeing. She is a World Championships and World Cup Silver medallist, a Commonwealth Beach Sprints Gold, Silver and Bronze medallist, and raced in the 2017 Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race. 

 

Prior to her elite sporting career, Emily was a genetics and health researcher at the University of Toronto where she completed a Masters of Science in Molecular Anthropology.  She then worked with Indigenous communities in Canada on developing culturally relevant health and policy deliverables. 

 

Following retirement from sport, Emily completed a Masters of Public Policy at The University of Oxford where she specialised in global health and sport policy.  She is currently ​a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh where her research focuses on the concept and responsibilities of a 'duty of care' for elite and professional athletes. 

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Across her career in sport and policy, Emily has worked with the UK Government on the tailored review of UK Anti-Doping (resulting in a £6.1m funding uplift) and the planning of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. At EY she was a consultant advising sport organisations on preparing athletes for retirement and transition from sport, developing the curriculum for over 40 e-learning modules to support the personal development of elite and professional athletes. 

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily was recruited to work for Oxford University on the world's largest pandemic policy tracker/research project, while consulting for sport organisations who were in the midst of global upheaval. Since 2020, she has been independently advising sport organisations, governments and governing bodies of sport on a wide range of policy issues and programs ranging from safeguarding and safe sport, gender equality, best practice in governance, and more. 

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Emily has worked with UNESCO and UN Women, Abuse-Free Sport Canada, the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre for Canada, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the Canadian Olympic Committee. She has also advised Switch the Play Foundation,  the UK and Canadian governments, Middle Eastern governing bodies of sport, and local grassroots sports organisations on policy development, refinement and research. She is on the board of WomenSport International, leading their policy and advocacy work with UNESCO and other UN agencies on gender equality in sport and physical activity. ​​​