OUTstanding advocate for LGBT rights in the City and in the law discusses the importance of role modelling and strategic engagement with diversity and inclusion.
Alison Gaskins is the chief of staff to Bob Hoyt, Barclays’ general counsel, providing central support to the legal function and to the business units that legal supports. She discusses the function’s commitment to D&I, and the work that Barclays does across the organisation.
Matthew Flood talks us through his work as a champion of diversity throughout his career, and his experiences of setting up the LGBT network at previous employer Balfour Beatty.
Margot Day talks about the benefits and challenges of driving a diversity and inclusion agenda in the traditionally male-dominated world of design and engineering.
Sarah Davis discusses The Guardian‘s in-house training contract as a tool for improving social mobility, as well as diversity in the city.
Lawson Crawford manages and co-ordinates the variety of business and legal issues facing University College London’s wholly owned subsidiary UCL Business PLC, which works to commercialise the technology emanating from the university including by way of making connections between academic research and innovation carried out in the bio-pharm and non-bio-pharm sciences, the arts and the market. In 2012 he was named as a rising star on Powerful Media’s Powerlist.
Michael Coates and Alan Buchanan talk about the importance of D&I to Shell, and how company leadership (of which legal is a key part) is driving and supporting this.
Funke Abimbola discusses promoting diversity as a mentor and sponsor for people ranging from school age to senior associate level, both inside and outside of law.
Channel 4 GC Prash Naik talks about the 360° Diversity Charter introduced by the television broadcaster in 2015.
HBO Europe’s central Europe-based general counsel, Gordon Finlayson, talks to Catherine Rodgers about creating a “team” from “teams”, unifying processes and rolling out a bespoke IT system
across ten countries.