Emma Sarton is a Senior Education Advisor at Cambridge Education and is the Learning Lead on the Girls' Education Challenge. She has over 20 years' experience in the education sector from teaching to managing education programming. She has worked with governments, NGOs, academics, and educators in many places but has in-depth experience of East and Central Africa and Iraq.

All the roles the Emma's has taken are focused on ensuring access to quality education for all children, whether that is through supporting inclusion, designing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems to understand impact, or learning through evidence generation.