Emily Hamlin Deakins

Board Member, Communications Committee

Emily concluded a 25-year corporate career in the field of Human Resources serving as BP’s Vice President, Global Diversity & Inclusion, leading the development and implementation of the company’s D&I strategy in its operations across the globe.  Prior to this appointment, she served in a variety of domestic and international Human Resources Management.

Since retiring, over the last decade Emily has engaged in a variety of volunteer activities including: board member (current), co-chair of the Communications Committee, and member of theh Executive Committee of Friends of Givat Haviva; board member (current) of the ADL-Southwest Region, previously chairing the Education Committee which administered the “No Place For Hate” Initiative in over 400 schools in the Houston/Southwest Texas area; board member of Temple Sinai, serving in various roles including President, VP Education and Social Action Trustee; co-founder of the Houston chapter of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, engaging more than 150 Muslim and Jewish women in dialogue, learning and social action; and board member of Ten Thousand Villages, a non-profit fair-trade retailer of globally sourced artisan crafted items.  

Emily holds an M.B.A. from New York University and a B.A. in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology from the State University of New York at Albany.  While pursuing her undergraduate degree in the late 1970’s, she lived in Israel, splitting her time between studies in Haifa and Jerusalem, and life on Kibbutz Gesher in the Beit Shean Valley.