Mott MacDonald DIGITAL

Target: Mott MacDonald Group and relevant subsidiaries Research cutoff: 25 October 2026 Domain: Digital Scope: Enterprise technology, digital platforms, cloud infrastructure, data processing, cybersecurity suppliers, surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence, digital-sector investments, controlling principals and documented technology relationships with Israeli entities.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Corporate structure and control

Mott MacDonald Group Limited is incorporated in England and Wales under company number 01110949, and Mott MacDonald Limited is registered under number 01243967.^{1, 2}

The company’s corporate directory identifies Mott MacDonald International Limited, Mott MacDonald Limited, Cambridge Education and other operating entities within its international group structure.³

Mott MacDonald describes itself as employee-owned and states that its ownership structure has no external investors.⁴

Its published 2025 results report gross revenue of £2.48 billion, pre-tax profit of £107.8 million and approximately 20,000 employees.⁵

Microsoft enterprise relationship

[pre-2020] On 12 March 2019, Microsoft announced a partnership with Mott MacDonald covering Azure, infrastructure analytics, artificial intelligence and digital-twin applications.⁶

The 2019 partnership included migration of Mott MacDonald’s Moata cloud analytics and digital-twin platform to Microsoft Azure; Microsoft reported that the platform handled more than one billion data points per day.⁶

The Microsoft relationship was confirmed as continuing in 2025 when Mott MacDonald announced expanded collaboration involving Microsoft Azure AI Foundry.⁷

Mott MacDonald’s 2025 annual reporting describes investment in strategic technology providers and the introduction of its internally developed generative AI assistant, EMMA.⁸

In 2026, Mott MacDonald announced a Microsoft 365 E7 licensing agreement covering its workforce of approximately 20,000 people and combining productivity, security and AI functionality.⁹

The 2026 Microsoft 365 E7 announcement establishes an enterprise-scale licensing relationship, although the public announcement does not itemise the individual security products enabled or each system’s deployment configuration.⁹

Engineering and digital-design systems

Mott MacDonald’s Lower Catskill Aqueduct project documentation identifies Autodesk and Esri as technology partners involved in combining geographic-information-system data with building-information-modelling data.¹⁰

The company describes using Autodesk InfraWorks to create a three-dimensional infrastructure model incorporating geospatial and engineering information for the aqueduct project.¹⁰

The documented Autodesk and Esri applications concern infrastructure modelling and engineering design.¹⁰

Platform and systems integration

Microsoft’s November 2025 technical case study identifies Microsoft Graph API, SharePoint, OneDrive, Azure AI Search and Azure Database for PostgreSQL among the components supporting Mott MacDonald’s EMMA enterprise assistant.¹¹

The case study describes user-delegated access to business records through Microsoft Graph API and organisational information held in SharePoint and OneDrive.¹¹

Mott MacDonald’s expanded Microsoft collaboration involved more than 3,000 citizen developers using its digital workspaces environment during the preceding 18 months.⁷

ElementX and Mettle Studio development relationships

In a corporate announcement published in 2026, Mott MacDonald expressly identified ElementX and Mettle Studio as development partners for version 1.0 of its enterprise AI assistant, Every Mott MacDonald Answer (EMMA).¹²

Mott MacDonald stated that version 1.0 launched in early 2025 using its existing Microsoft enterprise technology ecosystem.¹²

ElementX independently identifies Mott MacDonald as an enterprise AI development customer and describes designing an organisational knowledge agent that integrates information from internal technical libraries, project systems and staff directories.¹³

ElementX’s implementation description identifies integration with existing permission structures and enterprise information systems, including SharePoint-based knowledge repositories.¹³

Mettle Studio independently identifies EMMA as a digital product designed and delivered for Mott MacDonald.¹⁴

Mettle Studio’s corporate announcement confirms its participation in the development and reports that the product reached approximately 25% workforce adoption within two weeks.¹⁵

ElementX describes itself as a New Zealand enterprise AI engineering business founded in Auckland in 2013.¹⁶

Mettle Studio identifies itself as a London-based digital product design and engineering organisation.¹⁷

No public evidence identified in these development-partner disclosures establishing that EMMA was developed under an Israeli government contract or using an identified Israeli-origin technology supplier.^{12, 13, 14, 17}

Israeli-origin cybersecurity and enterprise software

No public evidence identified of a direct Mott MacDonald procurement, licensing or implementation agreement with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty or Palo Alto Networks in the corporate technology disclosures and Microsoft implementation materials examined.^{7, 9, 11}

The publicly identified enterprise security and productivity relationship concerns Microsoft products, with no named Israeli-origin cybersecurity vendor established in the examined agreement announcement.⁹

Technology integrators and intermediaries

Microsoft is a directly documented enterprise technology partner and provider of cloud and AI infrastructure to Mott MacDonald.^{6, 7, 11}

ElementX and Mettle Studio are additionally confirmed as external development partners contributing to EMMA version 1.0.^{12, 13, 14}

No public evidence identified that these named technology partners mandated an Israeli-origin cybersecurity or surveillance product for Mott MacDonald’s documented digital-platform implementations.^{7, 10, 11, 12, 13}

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

Collection and processing of personal information

Mott MacDonald’s October 2024 digital-solutions privacy notice states that its Moata-related services may process names, contact information, location information, IP addresses, device identifiers, property ownership records, photographs, survey responses and project-related information.¹⁸

The notice also identifies third-party information sources, including public land registries and LexisNexis TraceIQ, for certain land-management services.¹⁸

Its website privacy notice identifies contact information, device identifiers, IP addresses, browsing information, account details and tracking technologies among information processed during website and digital-service interactions.¹⁹

The website notice identifies Moata, Osprey and STEPS as company digital services.¹⁹

The website privacy notice also identifies Siteimprove as a third-party technology used for website analytics.¹⁹

Employee monitoring

Mott MacDonald’s employee privacy notice states that information generated through corporate IT and communication systems may be processed, including information necessary to audit cybersecurity risks or monitor system-user activity.²⁰

The documented employee-monitoring purpose includes information-security oversight and use of internal technology infrastructure.²⁰

No public evidence identified in the examined employee privacy and security-policy materials of the deployment of Israeli-origin predictive policing, sentiment monitoring, workforce surveillance or behavioural-analysis software.^{20, 21}

Biometrics and facial recognition

No public evidence identified of a Mott MacDonald deployment of facial recognition, gait analysis or biometric identification systems supplied by Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, Trax or comparable Israeli-origin vendors in the reviewed corporate digital-services and technology documentation.^{18, 19, 21}

Third-party deployment

Mott MacDonald’s digital-solutions notice confirms that external service providers can support technology infrastructure and that personal information may be shared with authorised service providers under stated contractual and technical safeguards.¹⁸

ElementX’s documentation describes EMMA’s ability to retrieve information from technical repositories and personnel directories while respecting existing access controls.¹³

Mott MacDonald’s own announcement describes EMMA’s reasoning and planning functions as operating within its existing enterprise security permissions.¹²

No public evidence identified that these arrangements include a named Israeli-origin biometric surveillance provider or predictive-policing technology supplier.^{18, 21, 12, 13}

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Cloud architecture

[pre-2020] The March 2019 Microsoft partnership announcement documented Mott MacDonald’s planned migration of Moata to Azure, with cloud-based infrastructure analytics and large-scale data processing forming part of the arrangement.⁶

In 2025, Mott MacDonald confirmed further use of Microsoft Azure AI Foundry for digital engineering and enterprise AI development.⁷

Microsoft’s November 2025 implementation study identifies Azure AI Search, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Microsoft Graph API as components of EMMA.¹¹

Microsoft described EMMA as an enterprise system designed to disseminate organisational knowledge across a workforce of approximately 20,000 employees.¹¹

Mott MacDonald’s 2026 announcement separately confirmed that the initial version of EMMA was developed within its existing Microsoft enterprise environment.¹²

Data processing and residency

Mott MacDonald’s digital-solutions privacy notice states that personal data may be made available to group companies, third-party service providers and public authorities where applicable.¹⁸

The notice describes contractual agreements, encryption and role-based access controls as safeguards for international transfers of personal information.¹⁸

The company’s information-security policy assigns responsibility for corporate information security and privacy to designated governance, technology and project management roles.²¹

No public evidence identified in the reviewed Azure architecture and corporate privacy disclosures specifying Israel as the location of Moata’s or EMMA’s hosting, processing, backup or disaster-recovery infrastructure.^{11, 18, 21}

No public evidence identified of a Mott MacDonald-owned or leased data centre in Israel in the reviewed corporate directory and digital infrastructure publications.^{3, 7}

External development and geographic processing

ElementX identifies its operating origin as Auckland, New Zealand, and records a Mott MacDonald knowledge-agent deployment milestone during 2024.¹⁶

Mettle Studio identifies its business as a London-based digital product design and engineering organisation.¹⁷

The identified partner locations do not establish the geographic location of EMMA’s production workloads, personal-data processing or backups.^{11, 18, 13, 16, 17}

No public evidence identified in the partner implementation descriptions establishing processing of Mott MacDonald data within Israeli jurisdiction.^{12, 13, 16, 14}

Project Nimbus and government cloud

No public evidence identified connecting Mott MacDonald to Project Nimbus procurement, delivery, systems integration or operation in the company–Microsoft agreements and digital-platform implementation records reviewed.^{6, 7, 11}

The company’s documented Microsoft relationship does not identify Mott MacDonald as a contractor to Israeli state agencies or as a supplier under an Israeli sovereign-cloud programme.^{7, 11}

The additional ElementX and Mettle Studio disclosures concern Mott MacDonald’s enterprise knowledge assistant and do not identify an Israeli government cloud customer.^{12, 13, 14}

Sovereign-cloud and government data services

No public evidence identified of a Mott MacDonald contract providing Israeli government agencies with sovereign-cloud hosting, data-residency management or government cloud-resilience services.^{3, 7, 11}

Data-exposure boundary

The corporate materials establish processing of personal and project information through Moata and related platforms, but do not establish that such information is processed in Israeli jurisdiction or transferred to Israeli-controlled infrastructure.^{18, 19}

Microsoft’s documented access architecture for EMMA concerns organisational SharePoint and OneDrive records and does not identify an Israeli government or defence-related data recipient.¹¹

ElementX’s description confirms that EMMA can access organisational information through existing enterprise systems, subject to access permissions, but does not establish a transfer to Israeli infrastructure.¹³

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

Group defence activities

Mott MacDonald’s published 2025 performance report identifies defence and security among its operating markets and states that the company was working with the Australian Department of Defence on its Base Services Transformation Program.⁵

David Johnson’s corporate biography identifies defence and security among the markets included in his group development responsibilities.²²

These corporate descriptions establish defence-sector activity outside Israel without identifying an Israeli military or intelligence customer.^{5, 22}

Israeli military and intelligence agreements

No public evidence identified of a technology contract, systems integration agreement or digital-services arrangement between Mott MacDonald and the Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Ministry of Defence or Israeli intelligence agencies in the reviewed corporate, financial and technology-partnership materials.^{3, 5, 23}

The newly identified EMMA development partnerships involve ElementX and Mettle Studio and do not identify Israeli military or intelligence organisations as contracting customers.^{12, 13, 14}

Dual-use technology

Mott MacDonald’s documented Moata platform performs infrastructure analytics and digital-twin functions, including environmental and utility applications.⁶

The company’s Lower Catskill Aqueduct project demonstrates geospatial data processing, three-dimensional modelling and infrastructure asset management.¹⁰

EMMA is publicly described as an enterprise knowledge assistant that retrieves information, identifies relevant specialists and supports organisational workflows.^{11, 12, 13}

No public evidence identified that these documented platforms were supplied to an Israeli military or security organisation for surveillance, intelligence collection or military operations.^{6, 10, 11, 12}

Offensive cyber and weapons technology

No public evidence identified in the company’s stated technology partnerships, AI architecture and digital-services portfolio of development or supply of offensive cyber exploits, zero-day intrusion tools or digital weapons to Israeli state actors.^{7, 11, 24}

Post-July and post-November 2024 activity

Mott MacDonald’s Microsoft enterprise AI collaboration continued through 2025 and its Microsoft 365 enterprise licensing expanded in 2026.^{7, 9}

Mott MacDonald’s 2026 announcement identifies further operational development of EMMA through its external development partnerships following the initial early-2025 launch.¹²

No public evidence identified connecting those post-2024 technology agreements to an Israeli military recipient or settlement-related digital infrastructure deployment.^{7, 9, 11, 12}

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Enterprise AI deployment

Mott MacDonald announced that its internal generative AI assistant, Every Mott MacDonald Answer (EMMA), launched in January 2025.²⁵

The company subsequently appointed Nasrine Tomasi to lead its AI and information-management activities, including expansion of enterprise AI deployment.²⁵

Microsoft’s November 2025 case study describes EMMA as an enterprise knowledge assistant built using Azure AI Search and foundation models accessible through Azure AI Foundry.¹¹

The initial proof of concept used Azure OpenAI Assistants and Microsoft Graph API for query interpretation, tool orchestration and access to authorised business information.¹¹

The Microsoft case study reported that EMMA had reached approximately 60% of the company’s workforce by November 2025.¹¹

Mott MacDonald described using Azure AI technologies to enhance a consent-management solution and a carbon-design optimisation service.⁷

Microsoft’s November 2025 UK case study describes Azure AI Foundry as part of the company’s internal digital and AI development infrastructure.²⁶

EMMA version 1.0 and agentic capabilities

Mott MacDonald’s 2026 corporate announcement identifies ElementX and Mettle Studio as the development partners for EMMA version 1.0 and confirms that it launched in early 2025.¹²

The announcement expressly describes EMMA as an agentic AI assistant employing reasoning and planning methods to deliver organisation-specific information.¹²

Mott MacDonald states that EMMA respects existing security permissions when processing requests and retrieving enterprise knowledge.¹²

ElementX’s implementation case study describes an organisational knowledge agent capable of accessing technical standards, recognising the need for specialist expertise and identifying relevant colleagues through organisational directories.¹³

ElementX describes a phased implementation involving proof-of-concept development, controlled testing, production deployment and capability transfer to Mott MacDonald’s internal teams.¹³

ElementX reports that the system reached approximately 8,100 users within two months and handled thousands of daily messages during the period described in its case study.¹³

ElementX reports approximately 600–700 regular daily active users and increased engagement as the implementation evolved.¹³

Mettle Studio separately reports that approximately 25% of the workforce adopted EMMA during its first two weeks and that engagement subsequently increased fourfold relative to launch.¹⁵

The adoption and engagement measurements are reported by participating development partners and are not presented in the cited publications as independently audited figures.^{13, 15}

Model governance and security

Microsoft documented the use of Azure AI Red Teaming Agent and Azure AI Content Safety in EMMA’s development and operation.¹¹

Mott MacDonald’s responsible AI policy describes principles including human oversight, accountability, transparency, privacy, reliability and security.²⁴

The policy assigns overall responsibility for implementation to the group development director and monitoring responsibilities to the company’s AI governance working group.²⁴

Mott MacDonald’s information-security policy separately requires employees to complete annual information-security and privacy training.²¹

Training data

The published EMMA architecture includes retrieval of organisational documents through SharePoint and OneDrive with delegated permissions.¹¹

ElementX’s case study describes retrieval from internal technical libraries, project information and staff directories, with access controls governing the information available to users.¹³

No public evidence identified that EMMA or another documented Mott MacDonald AI model was trained using intercepted communications, Israeli military surveillance data or personal data collected in occupied Palestinian territories.^{11, 25, 13}

AI provision to Israeli state institutions

No public evidence identified of the provision of EMMA, Azure-based engineering AI systems, computer-vision services or algorithmic decision-support tools by Mott MacDonald to Israeli state, defence or intelligence organisations.^{7, 11, 25, 12}

Autonomous systems

The capabilities Mott MacDonald publicly attributes to EMMA concern general-purpose enterprise knowledge retrieval, reasoning, planning and organisational information access.^{11, 12, 13}

No public evidence identified of Mott MacDonald providing autonomous surveillance, tracking or general-purpose AI monitoring systems to Israeli military or state-security customers.^{7, 24, 25}

No public evidence identified of purpose-built kinetic targeting or fire-control systems supplied by Mott MacDonald to Israeli forces in the examined Digital material.^{5, 24, 12}

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Corporate geographic footprint

Mott MacDonald’s registered-companies directory identifies numerous international operating entities and branches across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia and the Middle East.³

The reviewed corporate directory identifies regional operations including Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, without identifying an Israeli registered subsidiary or branch in the disclosed entries examined.³

No public evidence identified in that directory of an Israeli research laboratory, innovation centre or engineering subsidiary operated by Mott MacDonald.³

Ownership and acquisitions

The company’s employee-ownership statement confirms that its business is owned by employees rather than external investors.⁴

Mott MacDonald’s announcement concerning Paul Bentley confirms that JN Bentley joined the Mott MacDonald business in 2014 and that the companies work together through the Mott MacDonald Bentley delivery organisation.²⁷

The JN Bentley relationship concerns engineering and construction delivery in the UK, including major water-industry projects.²⁷

No public evidence identified of an acquisition or strategic investment in an Israeli cybersecurity, surveillance, AI or military-technology company within the reviewed corporate group disclosures.^{3, 4, 27}

Board members and controlling principals

Mott MacDonald’s public executive biography identifies James Harris as executive chair and chief executive, with executive-board membership beginning in 2017 and appointment as chair and chief executive in 2022.²⁸

Companies House identifies James Harris and David Johnson among directors of Mott MacDonald Limited.²⁹

The group-level Companies House officers register identifies David Johnson and other group directors, including Andrew McNaughton’s September 2026 appointment.³⁰

David Johnson’s company biography identifies responsibility for digital transformation and development across several international operating markets.²²

Paul Bentley joined the executive board with effect from 1 January 2026 and retained his senior management responsibilities within JN Bentley.²⁷

No public evidence identified in the reviewed executive biographies and statutory director disclosures of personal equity holdings, board appointments or investment vehicles linking these named executives to Israeli surveillance, offensive cybersecurity or military AI businesses.^{22, 28, 29, 30}

The reviewed statutory records identify formal company directorships but do not provide a complete inventory of directors’ private financial investments.^{29, 30}

External AI development footprint

ElementX’s corporate history identifies Auckland, New Zealand, as its founding location and records the company beginning operations in 2013.¹⁶

The same corporate history identifies a Mott MacDonald knowledge-agent deployment milestone during 2024.¹⁶

Mott MacDonald’s later corporate announcement identifies early 2025 as the launch period for EMMA version 1.0; the cited announcements do not expressly reconcile the 2024 deployment milestone with the version 1.0 launch.^{12, 16}

Mettle Studio describes itself as a London-based organisation providing digital product design, user experience, software engineering and related development services.¹⁷

Mettle Studio’s project directory identifies EMMA as an AI transformation project designed and delivered for Mott MacDonald.¹⁴

The examined supplier disclosures do not identify an Israeli research facility or development operation associated with the EMMA engagement.^{13, 16, 14, 17}

Technology development

Mott MacDonald’s digital workspaces initiative enabled more than 3,000 citizen developers during an 18-month period reported in its 2025 Azure announcement.⁷

The company describes AI development as an internal innovation priority governed by its responsible AI policy.^{24, 25}

Its 2025 accounts and executive statement describe investment in technology partnerships, internal digital capability and knowledge-management systems.²³

The ElementX implementation case study identifies internal capability transfer as part of the EMMA development programme.¹³

Patents and academic relationships

No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate development, financial and technology disclosures of an Israeli university co-development agreement, technology patent assignment or intellectual-property licensing arrangement involving Mott MacDonald.^{3, 23, 24}

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Corporate transparency and reporting

Mott MacDonald publishes consolidated annual financial reports covering Mott MacDonald Group Limited and financial information for its main trading company.²³

Its 2025 annual reporting discusses employee ownership, digital transformation, technology investment and operational markets.^{5, 23}

Companies House recorded the filing of Mott MacDonald Group Limited’s accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025 in July 2026.¹

Mott MacDonald’s governance documentation includes published information-security, privacy and responsible AI policies.^{21, 24, 31}

UN and NGO scrutiny

No public evidence identified in the successfully examined company publications and statutory disclosures establishing Mott MacDonald as a named technology supplier to Israeli settlements, Israeli military surveillance programmes or Israeli government cloud projects.^{3, 5, 23}

No public evidence identified from the target-specific searches conducted of a published Who Profits or AFSC Investigate investigation substantiating Israeli military-technology provision by Mott MacDonald; the corporate and technology disclosures examined do not independently establish such an engagement.^{5, 7, 23}

No Mott MacDonald-specific finding from the UN settlement-business framework was independently established by the company-specific evidence documented in this audit.^{3, 23}

Organised campaigns

No public evidence identified in the corporate disclosures and target-specific research of an organised boycott or divestment campaign specifically alleging that Mott MacDonald supplied Israeli surveillance, military AI or digital targeting technology.^{5, 23, 31}

Regulatory and legal action

No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate and public regulatory materials of sanctions enforcement, technology-export proceedings or regulatory findings concerning Mott MacDonald’s supply of digital products or services to Israeli state entities.^{1, 2, 23}

Constructive notice and continuing technology relationships

The company publicly confirmed continuing Microsoft AI investment in 2025 and additional Microsoft 365 enterprise licensing in 2026.^{7, 9}

Mott MacDonald also confirmed the development of EMMA with ElementX and Mettle Studio, identifying an early-2025 version 1.0 launch and discussing the assistant’s capabilities in a 2026 corporate announcement.¹²

Those announcements do not identify Israeli government agencies, Israeli military bodies or occupied-territory settlements as customers or deployment destinations for the disclosed technology programmes.^{7, 9, 12}