Emma Boon

Emma Boon was special adviser to Elizabeth Truss, in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from July 2015 until the cabinet reshuffle of July 2016. She is now a special adviser in the Department for Transport.

Boon is a former campaign director and former campaign manager of the Taxpayers' Alliance. A former broadcast journalist, Boon ed the think tank in February 2010 as a campaign manager, in November 2010 she became the campaign director. In 2000 she co-authored an article in The Times on city trading with Fraser Nelson.