Emma Price

Emma is a former Big 4 Partner and NED with 25+ years’ experience supporting boards, audit and risk committees, and executive teams across complex, fast-changing environments. Her background spans strategic risk, enterprise risk management, resilience, governance, internal controls, assurance and transformation, with leadership roles across EMEA, Australia and United States.

What makes you a Risky Woman?

Emma is particularly focused on the intersection of risk, resilience and strategy, and how organisations can better anticipate and respond to disruption arising from volatility. Having served as a NED and Board Advisor, Emma brings first-hand understanding of board dynamics, effective challenge, and the balance between oversight and support.

Name your top 3 achievements

1. Balancing (kind of!) bringing up four children with a successful career.
2. Developing Enterprise Risk Management as a Service—a technology-enabled, scalable model that enhanced risk reporting, internal control effectiveness and board-level insight, particularly for audit committees and regulated environments.
3. Design and delivery of the Risk Management module of Bath University’s MBA programme, resulting in students pursuing careers in the GRC space.

What is the biggest risk you’ve taken in your career?

Leaving a Partner role in the Big 4 to pursue a more purpose driven career, focusing on delivering real value and sustainable change for boards, underpinned by technology.

What’s something most people don’t know about you?

Emma has dual UK and Australian citizenship and lived and worked in Melbourne for a number of years.

What is the best quality for successful leaders in Risk?

Curiosity and big picture thinking – being able to ‘join the dots’ and ask difficult questions to prompt pragmatic action.