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Emma Loxton

PartnerLondon

Emma Loxton

PartnerLondon

Works with companies across transport, aerospace, and defense industries to build and deliver strategies and improve commercial performance

Emma helps clients to build leading strategies, improve commercial performance, and reshape their organizations to deliver. Emma works extensively in the aerospace, defense, transport, and infrastructure sectors, collaborating with companies and institutions to address strategic and organizational challenges on a global scale.

Much of Emma’s work involves advising senior executives across a range of strategic, operational, and financial issues, and, critically, how they set up to deliver impact.

Examples of Emma’s recent client work include the following:

  • developing a strategy for a leading aerospace and defense company, coaching the team to deliver the company’s strategic objectives
  • redesigning the organization and operating model with a leading industrial company to establish a new way of working to deliver their strategic ambitions and realize ~$250 million in savings
  • creating a new cross-country operating model for a mining company to support strategic shifts and portfolio changes
  • designing and implementing an AI program with a leading travel company to transform how they operate and deliver value for customers

Before joining McKinsey, Emma worked for the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit within the UK government, providing strategic policy advice to 10 Downing Street.

Published work

Rolls-Royce in transformation: An interview with Nikki Grady-Smith,” McKinsey & Company, September 2024

Aircraft MRO 2.0: The digital revolution,” McKinsey & Company, July 2024

Addressing continued turbulence: The commercial-aerospace supply chain,” McKinsey & Company, April 2024

Travel Disruptors: Capturing B2B growth,” McKinsey & Company, January 2024

Built to last: Making sustainability a priority in transport infrastructure,” McKinsey & Company, October 2021

Education

University of Oxford
MA, philosophy, politics, and economics