Dame Emily Jane Ruth Lawson DBE is a British management consultant and the interim Chief Operating Officer of NHS England.
[3][5][6] After this, she undertook a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked as a technology and business development manager at the biotech firm Avitech Diagnostics for two years.
[3] Lawson was promoted to partner at the firm's London office and led its human capital practice across Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and co-wrote its 2012 report Women Matter 2012: Making the Breakthrough on improving gender diversity in business.
[13] She left this role to become the Senior Responsible Officer for the NHS COVID-19 vaccine deployment programme in November 2020 and led its initial rollout.
[18] She left this role in August 2023 and returned to NHS England in October 2023 as its interim Chief Operating Officer replacing Jim Mackey.