Emma Wright

Emma has been ranked as a leading partner by Chambers UK for over a decade, with particular accolades for her work in telecommunications, information technology, and outsourcing. She is also ranked in The Legal500 and has been named a stand-out lawyer by Thomson Reuters since 2024. 

Emma advises clients on complex technology procurements and supply chain challenges involving critical infrastructure, payments, manufacturing, and defense. Her compliance work spans global privacy, cybersecurity, and resilience frameworks, including breach response and associated global regulatory filings relating to data protection, cyber and resilience, and broader national security and defense. She counsels on the commercialization and adoption of data, AI and emerging technologies, the impact of AI on cybersecurity, as well as all regulatory and commercial aspects of British and European procurement processes. She also regularly advises on appropriate governance frameworks to support the implementation of AI and other emerging technologies. 

Beyond her client work, Emma is co-founder and director of the Interparliamentary Forum on Emerging Technologies, a not-for-profit organization that has built a global network of legislators sharing regulatory best practices regarding AI and other technologies. She is also a founding member of UNESCO Women4EthicalAI, a collaborator with the University of Oxford in its AI in Education Hub, and a UNESCO Global Expert Without Borders in AI regulation. In 2026, she was added to the Computer Weekly Women in Tech Hall of Fame for her work supporting the technology sector.