Emma Gilthorpe

Charlotte Emma Tiffany Gilthorpe (born 1970) is a British business executive, and the chief operating officer of Heathrow Airport since 2020. She is the CEO-designate of Royal Mail, and will start in May 2024.

Early life
She was educated at Leicester Polytechnic. She has a brother and a sister. In 1986, her mother Patricia Gilthorpe married the Conservative politician Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree.

Career
She is a practising barrister, and was called to the bar in July 1996.

Gilthorpe worked in the telecoms industry, with BT Group and Cable & Wireless plc, and joined Heathrow Airport in 2009.

In March 2021, she was appointed CEO of the Jet Zero Council, a UK trade body.