Emma Elizabeth Mulqueeny (

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

Knight; born 12 July 1971) is a British technologist and educator. She is best known for co-founding

Rewired State Rewired State was an organisation which ran a series of hack days for programmers and designers, focused on improving access to UK government open data and encouraging innovation in government services. Rewired State was founded by James Darlin ...

and

Young Rewired State Young Rewired State (often styled as YRS) was an organisation based in the United Kingdom, which ran events and schemes for technically gifted young people aged 18 and under. It brought together young developers, designers, and those with other ...

, which provided a community and events for technically gifted young people. She has campaigned for programming to be taught from an early age in UK schools to encourage wider uptake and increased diversity in the tech sector.

Early life and education

Mulqueeny was born as the daughter of Kenneth G Knight and Sara Nicholls (

McArtney).

Career

Mulqueeny served on the House of Commons' Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy and was a 2014 Google Personal Democracy Fellow. She regularly writes for different media, including

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was fo ...

Awards and honours

Mulqueeny was included in the 166th annual edition of ''

Who's Who ''Who's Who'' (or ''Who is Who'') is the title of a number of reference publications, generally containing concise biography, biographical information on the prominent people of a country. The title has been adopted as an expression meaning a gr ...

'', and was voted onto the Wired 100 list,

Tech City East London Tech City (also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout) is a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in East London, United Kingdom. Its main area lies broadly between St Luke's and Hackney Road, with an accelerator spac ...

100 and BIMA Hot 10. She was voted one of the top ten women in technology by ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

'' and was named in the top ten Tech Heroes for Good by NESTA. She was appointed as an

Officer of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(OBE) in the

2016 Birthday Honours The 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as pa ...

for services to technology and education.

Personal life

Mulqueeny lives in Surrey with her two daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mulqueeny, Emma Living people 1971 births Alumni of the University of Surrey British women computer scientists People from Sidcup Officers of the Order of the British Empire