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Dame Emily Jane Ruth Lawson
DBE is a British management consultant and the interim Chief Operating Officer of
NHS England . Lawson led the initial rollout of the
NHS
COVID-19 vaccine programme in 2020 and the subsequent booster programme in 2021. Prior to this, she worked for
McKinsey & Company ,
Morrisons , and
Kingfisher plc in
human resources .
Early life and education
Lawson was born in
Westminster ,
London in March 1967.
[1] She attended
North London Collegiate School and
Westminster School .[
citation needed ] She is Jewish.
[2] She studied
Natural Sciences at
Gonville and Caius College ,
University of Cambridge graduating with a first in 1989.
[3] While there she was president of the Caius Science Society in her final year.
[4] She then completed a doctorate in
molecular genetics at the
John Innes Centre ,
University of East Anglia , with a thesis on
transposons in
Arabidopsis in 1993.
[3]
[5]
[6] After this, she undertook a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the
University of Pennsylvania and then worked as a technology and business development manager at the biotech firm Avitech Diagnostics for two years.
[3]
Career
Lawson obtained an MBA at
Saïd Business School ,
University of Oxford in 1998.
[7] She joined management consultancy
McKinsey & Company in the same year.
[3] Lawson was promoted to partner at the firm's London office and led its human capital practice across Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and co-wrote its 2012 report Women Matter 2012: Making the Breakthrough on improving
gender diversity in business.
[5] She joined supermarket chain
Morrisons as their group
Human Resources Director in September 2013.
[8] Lawson left the company in 2015,
[9] and joined
Kingfisher plc as their Chief People Officer.
[10] She left Kingfisher plc after a year.
[11]
In November 2017, Lawson joined
NHS England as their National Director for Transformation and Corporate Operations. She was responsible for
business transformation and the integration of
NHS Improvement into the organisation.
[12] Lawson was promoted to Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) in early 2020.
[13] She left this role to become the Senior Responsible Officer for the NHS
COVID-19 vaccine deployment programme in November 2020 and led its initial rollout.
[14] She was seconded to lead Prime Minister
Boris Johnson 's
Delivery Unit for the summer of 2021 before returning to lead the vaccine
booster programme in October 2021.
[15]
[16]
[17] Lawson returned to lead the unit in 2022.
[18] She left this role in August 2023 and returned to NHS England in October 2023 as its interim Chief Operating Officer replacing
Jim Mackey .
[19]
[20]
[21]
Lawson was appointed
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the
2022 New Year Honours for services to the NHS, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[22]
[23] She is a founding member of and deputy chair of the
30% Club which aims to improve gender diversity in business.
[24]
Selected publications
Scheres, B.; Wolkenfelt, H.; Willemsen, V.; Terlouw, M.; Lawson, E.; Dean, C.; Weisbeek, P. (1 September 1994).
"Embryonic origin of the Arabidopsis primary root and root meristem initials" . Development . 120 (9): 2475–2487.
doi :
10.1242/dev.120.9.2475 .
hdl :
1874/12641 .
ISSN
1477-9129 .
Guthridge, Matthew; Komm, Asmus B.; Lawson, Emily (2008).
Making talent a strategic priority (PDF) . McKinsey. Retrieved 1 January 2022 .
Lawson, Emily; Price, Colin (2003).
The psychology of change management (PDF) . McKinsey.
References
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"District Information" . FreeBMD. Retrieved 7 January 2024 .
^ Rocker, Simon (29 April 2021).
"Rabbi Sacks was my inspiration, says NHS director who led vaccine rollout" . The Jewish Chronicle .
Archived from the original on 7 January 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024 .
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a
b
c
d Leroux, Marcus (24 April 2013).
"Business big shot: Emily Lawson" . The Times . Archived from
the original on 1 January 2022. (subscription required)
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"Damehood for Caius alumna" . Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 6 January 2022.
Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2024 .
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a
b Devillard, Sandrine; Graven, Wieteke; Lawson, Emily (2012).
"Women Matter 2012 Making the Breakthrough" . McKinsey & Company.
Archived from the original on 25 October 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2024 .
^ Lawson, Emily J. R (1993).
Molecular and genetic analysis of a modified Ac transposon in Arabidopsis (Thesis).
OCLC
53495933 .
Archived from the original on 7 January 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2023 .
^
"School Board Vice-Chair among New Year Honours List" . Saïd Business School. 11 January 2022.
Archived from the original on 6 January 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2024 .
^ Lawson, Alex.
"Morrisons appoints McKinsey partner as group HR director" . Retail Week .
Archived from the original on 7 January 2024. Retrieved 1 January 2022 .
^ Tugby, Luke.
"Morrisons loses another director as HR boss Emily Lawson departs" . Retail Week .
Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2022 .
^ Chapman, Matthew (15 September 2015).
"Kingfisher top team becomes majority female as DIY giant hires Emily Lawson" . Retail Week .
Archived from the original on 20 November 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2024 .
^ Hardy, Emily (23 September 2016).
"Exclusive: Kingfisher appoints new exec following exit of Emily Lawson" . Retail Week .
Archived from the original on 7 January 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024 .
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"Emily Lawson" . NHS Confederation.
Archived from the original on 1 October 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024 .
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"Hospitals get ramped up for delivery of protective kit to staff fighting coronavirus" . NHS England. 23 March 2020.
Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024 .
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"NHS vaccine programme chief among health service honours" . NHS England .
Archived from the original on 31 December 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022 .
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"NHS England » Former vaccine chief returns as NHS prepares for winter" . NHS England. 22 October 2021.
Archived from the original on 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022 .
^ Rapson, Jasmine (22 October 2021).
"Vaccine lead returns to NHS England months after joining No 10" . Health Service Journal .
Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022 .
^ Shipman, Tim (12 September 2021).
"King Boris keeps his court guessing" . The Sunday Times .
Archived from the original on 17 February 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024 . (subscription required)
^ Shipman, Tim (1 January 2022).
"A sticky situation: can Boris Johnson escape the web?" . The Sunday Times .
Archived from the original on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024 . (subscription required)
^ Zeffman, Henry; Wright, Oliver (29 June 2023). " 'Five pledges' chief leaves Whitehall". The Times .
^
"NHS executive group" . NHS England.
Archived from the original on 30 September 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2024 .
^ Discombe, Matt (16 October 2023).
"Mackey moves to Newcastle as NHSE appoints new COO" . Health Service Journal . Retrieved 10 January 2024 . (subscription required)
^
"No. 63571" .
The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N8.
^ England, NHS.
"NHS England » NHS vaccine programme chief among health service honours" . NHS England .
Archived from the original on 31 December 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022 .
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"Covid Vaccine Delivery Head Encourages Self-Belief" . Girls' Schools Association. 11 August 2022.
Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024 .