Emma Banks is a Music Agent and Co-Head of Global Touring at leading entertainment and sports agency, Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Based in CAA’s London office, she represents some of the world’s top musicians, including Katy Perry, Muse, Arcade Fire, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Florence + The Machine, Kylie Minogue, and Green Day.

Banks began her career at Wasted Talent, where she worked with Mike Greek.  After a series of ownership changes, the company was renamed Helter Skelter in the late 1990s.  Banks and Greek helped build Helter Skelter into one of the premier music booking agencies in Europe and Banks was subsequently named Managing Director.  

She joined CAA in 2006 with Greek to help establish the agency’s London office and further develop CAA’s music business internationally.

Banks is the chair of the Board of Trustees for Nordoff and Robbins, the UK’s largest music therapy charity.  In 2018, she received the highly prestigious Music Industry Trusts Award in recognition of her contributions to the music industry. She was honored twice by the U.K.’s Woman of the Year Awards for the Music Industry – winning the Special Achievement Award in 1997 and Woman of the Year in 2007, in what turned out to be the final year of that awards ceremony.  She has won the International Live Music Conference (ILMC) Second Least Offensive Agent Award an unprecedented six times and in 2020 was honored with their premiere award ‘The Bottle Award’.  She is winner of Pollstar’s International Agent of the Year Award on multiple occasions (12 at least). She has also been named to Billboard’s Women In Music and International Power Players lists numerous times. In 2023 Banks was awarded The Strat at the Music Week Awards.