Hon. Emma Edwards

Tourism
Minerals
Environment & Heritage
Housing

 

Constituency: Stanley

 

Email: EEdwards@sec.gov.fk

 

 

Emma was born in 1971 in Portsmouth, England and is the eldest daughter of Norma and Roger Edwards. She came to the Falkland Islands when she was two years old, while her father was serving on HMS Endurance and spent about a year in the Islands.  Her mother is a Falkland Islander.

 

Following the 1982 conflict, the family moved to the Falkland Islands where she was educated at Stanley Senior School. In 1986, the family moved to Fox Bay West to one of the sub-divided farms, where her parents still live today.

 

While waiting to go to college she worked for 9 months at the Falkland Islands Woollen Mill knitting jumpers.  Emma then travelled to Winchester, England to study for her A levels from 1988 to 1990.

 

She then returned home and worked for a year in the Agricultural Department, based at Fox Bay East, before starting to study Geology in 1991 at The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

 

After graduation in 1995, Emma took up the appointment of junior geologist with the Falkland Islands Government and was involved in the first oil licensing launch and the geological land mapping of the Islands.

 

In 1998 Emma went to Aberdeen University to study a Masters Degree in Petroleum Geology and returned to the Islands working at the Falkland Islands Development Corporation exploring the potential onshore mineral deposits.

 

In 2000 Emma worked for Cable & Wireless, the local telecommunications company, as their Customer Service Manager.  In 2004 she then decided to retrain at Exeter University to become a secondary school teacher of Geography.  After working briefly at Hoddesdon, just outside of London, she then returned to the Island in 2006 and took up her current position as geography teacher at the Falkland Islands Community School in Stanley.

 

As well as working as a teacher Emma has been a reserve Police Constable for 11 years in the Royal Falkland Islands Police and has worked seasonally for eight years the Clipper Adventurer as a Geology lecturer and zodiac driver, travelling regularly to South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsular as well as around Northern Europe.