Emma J. Cummings is a British-born operations strategist who spent more than a decade running high-stakes supply chains across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Raised in Leicester, she studied economics at the University of Leeds and earned an MPA from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs. From 2011 to 2022 she held roles in Nairobi, Dubai, and Rotterdam for a major logistics firm, where she led emergency cold-chain deployments during the West Africa Ebola response and coordinated vaccine and PPE movements in 2020–2021. Her essays on infrastructure and ethics have appeared in the Financial Times, Prospect, and Wired UK. She lives in Lisbon with her partner and two children.
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