British businesses are launching a new campaign to increase racial and ethnic participation in senior leadership.
As president of the CBI, I am delighted to announce that we, alongside Aviva, BiTC, Brunswick, City Mental Health Alliance, Cranfield University, Deloitte, Microsoft and Russell Reynolds will soon launch Change the Race Ratio – a campaign to increase racial and ethnic participation in British businesses.
The campaign will call for all businesses to set and publish clear targets for greater racial and ethnic diversity at board and senior leadership levels. The campaign will launch at the end of October – ahead of the launch we invite you to sign up and commit to helping change the race ratio through tangible action.
Why now?
We believe that the time for change is now: business needs to take urgent action on black and ethnic minority participation at senior leadership levels.
We realise that real change won’t happen without a concerted effort. The Parker review into ethnic diversity on boards, which was published in 2016, set out a series of well
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