Emer is ex Government Digital Service and former Digital Projects Director with City Hall London where she established The London Datastore. She’s an experienced digital leader with a background in the public and private sector. Emer is an expert in the field of open data and was the former Chair of the Open Data Governance Board Ireland advising the Irish Government on their open data initiative. She currently lives in Manchester where she is helping to build The Federation, an open community of digital businesses & innovators, built on co-operative values, in the heart of the city. She is a Non-Executive Director of TransportAPI (the digital platform for Transport).

People, Privacy, and Profit, in her Innovate Manchester Webinar Our Digital Future: Data and Ethics, Emer uses these three interconnected themes to discuss the way technology has developed, especially in relation to the behaviors of the large technology firms and corporations.