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Garrett Emmerson is a British public servant. Since 30 May 2017, he has served as the Chief Executive of the London Ambulance Service. He had previously been Chief Operating Officer for Surface Transport at Transport for London (TfL), where he had been since 2008.

Career
Following an early career in local government in Newcastle upon Tyne, Preston and Telford, Emmerson became Head of Transportation at Buckinghamshire County Council in 2002, before leaving in 2007 to before a director of transport consultancy Steer Davies Gleave. He joined Transport for London in 2008, initially as Director of Strategy, becoming Chief Operating Officer for London Streets in 2009. Emmerson was also previously a columnist for transport magazine Local Transport Today and from 2004 until 2010 was a member of the Government's Commission for Integrated Transport. In October 2015, Emmerson also became a member of the Office of Rail and Road Highways Committee, which monitors the performance of national roads body Highways England.

At TfL, Emmerson was responsible for maintaining and operating London's road network, taxi and private hire licensing, congestion charging,the Santander cycle hire scheme, London river services, Victoria Coach Station and the construction of London's cycle superhighways.