Gemma Timmons

Gemma is a Senior Consultant at Oliver Wyman, a global management consultancy firm. 

She is deeply involved with making a positive, lasting impact on the community around her. Gemma is especially passionate about causes relating to mental health, workplace culture, and entrepreneurship and innovation. She holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.

At Oliver Wyman, Gemma works to deliver impact for global clients across a variety of sectors. Her work has included a group strategy project for a specialist bank, conducting end-to-end due diligences on firms, delivering a risk function improvement programme for an international insurance company, and supporting the development of a new green lending framework for a national bank.

As part of Oliver Wyman’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Committee, Gemma is organising an office-wide pilot of a new initiative to encourage acts of kindness, designed to improve well-being, connectivity, sense of purpose, and more. Gemma also represents Oliver Wyman on the Thriving from the Start Committee (part of the City Mental Health Alliance), which is working to create a culture of positive mental health in businesses for people in their early careers. As part of this role, she is co-organising and chairing an event on Mental Health and Loneliness for people in their early careers, tied to the 2022 National Mental Health Awareness Week.

Gemma is also committed to enhancing the culture and community at Oliver Wyman through her work as co-lead for Oliver Wyman’s UK & Ireland Social & Sports Committee

In recognition of her sustained work to making a positive, lasting impact at Oliver Wyman, Gemma was recognised as a UK & Ireland Firm Building Champion in 2022.

Passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation, Gemma is also the co-founder and non-executive director of OX1 Incubator, the University of Oxford’s first early-stage startup incubator. Now in its fourth year, OX1 Incubator has successfully supported over 20 startups and provided over £25 K equity-free support for more than 50 student founders.

From 2018 to 2021, Gemma was a co-founder and the Chief Business Development Officer for Idea Atlas: a digital platform for co-developing ideas, problem-solving, and transparent decision-making.