Emily Miles is the Chief Executive Officer of the FSA. She took up the role on 23 September 2019 after moving from Defra.

She worked in Defra since November 2015, joining as the Group Director of Strategy, and coordinating work on the domestic consequences of Brexit for Defra since the referendum in 2016.

For the previous 15 years she worked largely on home affairs issues, at the Home Office, Downing Street and Cabinet Office. Her roles included:

• Director of Policing at the Home Office
• Programme Director for the programme to clear the UK’s historic asylum caseload backlog in the UK Border Agency 
• Programme Director for the close of the National Policing Improvement Agency and the establishment of the College of Policing 

She was a policy advisor on home affairs to Prime Minister Tony Blair between 2002 and 2005.