Emma Slade, also known as Ani Pema Deki (born 16 July 1966), is a British yoga and meditation instructor, author, and charity founder best known for becoming the first Western woman to become a Buddhist nun in Bhutan.

She left in the autumn term of her final year and visited her parents who had moved to Summit, New Jersey, USA.

"[4] Slade worked briefly at a retirement home in Whitstable, Kent, before applying to HSBC's Global Banking Graduate Programme.

Slade enrolled in a Chartered Financial Analyst course run by AIMR and completed her first set of CFA exams in New York City in 1995 before returning to London.

[5] When the Jakarta police showed her a picture of her attacker bloodied and in his underwear, she was unexpectedly "overwhelmed with compassion for him, and for me, and for the whole situation," she told Time magazine.

[7][4] She returned to England, where she joined an intensive two-week therapy programme in Ticehurst Priory's PTSD unit.

[2] Her teachers included Nancy Gilgoff in Hawaii, Tias Little in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Dena Ginsberg in Byron Bay, Australia, David Swenson in Costa Rica, and John Scott in Cornwall.

Slade visited the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir in the Scottish Borders in July 2003 for a series of short retreats centered on meditation and Buddhist philosophy, particularly about compassion.

[2] Slade visited Bhutan in 2011, where she met Nima Tshering, who she assumed was a monk, at the Druk Wangyal Lhakhang temple and Brent Hyde, the General Managed of the Zhiwa Ling Hotel in Paro.

Their first project included installing cold showers and toilets in the local monastery and improving education facilities in the rural village of Meritsemo, in Chukha.

[2]: 299–300  She was invited to a reception hosted by the King and Queen of Bhutan at the Taj Tashi Hotel in Thimphu in April 2016, where she met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.