Emma Sinclair
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is a British businesswoman, entrepreneur and journalist.
Early life and education
Sinclair was born in
Middlesex and currently splits her time between New York and London. She is descended from
Jewish migrants to the United Kingdom.
While still at sixth form at
Haberdashers' School for Girls
Haberdashers' Girls' School is an Independent school (United Kingdom), independent day school in Elstree, Hertfordshire. It is often referred to as "Habs" (or "Habs Girls" to distinguish it from the neighbouring Haberdashers' Boys' School). The ...
, she worked at
McDonald’s
McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger st ...
. Sinclair graduated from The University of Leeds in 1998 with a BA in French, Spanish and Italian.
On leaving university, Sinclair joined a graduate training programme at
Rothschild & Co in investment banking.
Career
In 2005, age 29, Sinclair became the youngest person in the UK to take a company public after the property investment company Mission Capital floated on the
Alternative Investment Market. In 2008, Sinclair was forced out of her public company Mission Capital and lost her subsequent High Court reinstatement fight.
In 2012, Sinclair began writing the Wonder Woman column for
The Daily Telegraph. She has since written for
The Guardian,
Financial Times and
The Wall Street Journal and commented on business, entrepreneurship, politics, diversity and innovation on
Sunrise,
ITN
Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based television production company. It is made up of two divisions: Broadcast News and ITN Productions. ITN is based in London, with bureaux and offices in Beijing, Brussels, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, N ...
,
Channel 4 and
Channel 5. Sinclair continues to comment on international politics and advocate entrepreneurship to the UK overseas.
In 2014, Sinclair co-founded EnterpriseJungle, which rebranded to
EnterpriseAlumni
EnterpriseAlumni is a US-based multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage corporate Alumni & Retirees of large organizations. The company was co-founded in 2016 by Emma Sinclair and James Sinclair.
History
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in 2017.
In December 2016, she travelled to Delhi with Prime Minister
Teresa May,
James Dyson and British Indian entrepreneur
Baron Bilimoria to meet Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi to help promote better relationships between the UK and India.
Philanthropy
Sinclair has been a
UNICEF advisor since 2014,
In 2022 in response to the
2022 Ukrainian refugee crisis
An ongoing refugee crisis began in Europe in late February 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Almost 5.9 million refugees have since left Ukraine, while an estimated 7.7 million people had been displaced within the country by 21 April. A ...
, she gathered a consortium of over 200 companies to help provide english language training, resettlement skills, recertification and job opportunities for refugees arriving in the UK at scale with RefuAid. The first pilot was announced in March 2022 with sponsors such as PWC and PageGroup.
Honours and awards
In 2016, Sinclair was awarded an MBE
for Services To Entrepreneurship.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British businesspeople
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of the University of Leeds