Emma Hart is active worldwide in the field of evolutionary computation. She was general chair of PPSN 2016 and track chair at GECCO for several years. She has given keynotes at EURO 2016 and UKCI 2015. She is editor-in-chief of Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press) and an elected member of the ACM SIGEVO executive board. She is also a member of the UK Operations Research Society Research Panel.