Emma joined Sheffield Haworth  in 2007 as part of the Global Wealth and Asset Management team and is based in Hong Kong. She started her career in Investor Relations for mutual funds at Jardine Fleming Investment Management in Hong Kong (now part of JP Morgan Asset Management) followed by two years as a Private Banking officer Coutts & Co. Private Bank in London on the Asia desk. 

Emma grew up in Asia and then studied in the UK, graduating from Newcastle University in 1994 where she read Politics and East Asian studies and Mandarin Chinese. This included a years study at Peoples University Beijing.