Emma Boon was special adviser to Elizabeth Truss, in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from July 2015 until the cabinet reshuffle of July 2016. She is now a special adviser in the Department for Transport.

Boon is a former campaign director and former campaign manager of the Taxpayers' Alliance. A former broadcast journalist, Boon joined the think tank in February 2010 as a campaign manager, in November 2010 she became the campaign director. In 2000 she co-authored an article in The Times on city trading with Fraser Nelson.