Emma Lyon

Emma is Vice President, People at Liberty Global. In this role she is the Lead Business Partner for the Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Finance Officer and Chief People Officer covering all of the Central Functions and Global Finance teams. Emma relocated to Amsterdam from UK in August 2015. She contributes to business performance by providing strategic consulting on people strategies, organization design and development and all other people specific or business related initiatives, taking the internal and external context into account and leveraging relevant People Centers of Excellence.

Emma previously worked at Virgin Media (part of the Liberty Global family) for 2 years as People Director for the Customer Division (over 9,000 employees) supporting all Customer Contact, Sales, Field, Network Build, Network Expansion and Business Provide Leadership teams.

Emma has worked in a variety of international roles, including Vodafone and Specsavers, and has successfully completed assignments in Ghana, West Africa and Sweden.

Emma is a Fellow of the CIPD and completed the Advanced HR Executive Programme at Michigan University.

Emma is delighted to be the WICT Europe President and is really looking forward to working with the Board to drive a great programme of events for the chapter.