Protected: Ms. Emily Braid

Emily Braid is the Director for International Economics in the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom, since 2023. Prior to that, she served for four years at the HM Treasury, the UK government’s economic and finance ministry, as Deputy Director and Branch Head of Last Resort Business Interventions where she lead the government’s financial response to companies whose failure would result in disproportionate harm to the UK economy or society and oversaw the Treasury’s center of expertise on insolvency and bespoke commercial interventions. From 2017-2019, Emily was Senior Policy Advisor for the UK Mission to the United Nations where she represented the UK’s relationship with the UN Development Program and negotiated on UK development priorities at the UN. Prior to that, Emily was Assistant Director for the UK Department of Education where she oversaw the doubling of free childcare from 15 to 30 hours per week in one year; ensuring sufficient supply of free childcare places and mapping and mitigating delivery risk across England. She also served as Senior Social Policy Advisor for the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., from March 2013 to August 2014, managing U.S.-UK policy exchange and development across a social policy portfolio focused on healthcare, welfare, education, unemployment, pensions, and social inclusion issues. From 2010 to 2013, Emily served as a Human Rights Consultant for the University of Oxford, UN Working Group on Business and Human, as well as an Events Manager for Oxford’s Transitional Justice Research Group.

In 2011, Emily earned a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies from the University of Oxford where she was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth House 2nd Year Bursary. She earned a bachelor’s degree in comparative politics and English from Rice University, graduating Magna cum laude in 2009. Fluent in Spanish, she studied Spanish politics and literature as a study-abroad student in Valencia, Spain, at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.