Green Park research: No black CEOs, chairs or CFOs at FTSE 100 companies

'Snowy peaks remain stubbornly white'

Lauren Mason
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The number of black leaders at FTSE 100 companies has fallen to zero, according to research from executive recruitment and diversity consultancy agency Green Park, whose annual Business Leaders Index recorded no black chairs, CEOs or CFOs for the first time since it began running its reports in 2014.

According to its latest research, which examined the backgrounds of 6,172 individuals in total as of December 2020, only ten out of 297 of employees in these 'top three' roles have ethnic minority backgrounds at all - the same proportion as when Green Park first began its analysis. At FTSE 100 board and committee level, the percentage of black executive and non-executive directors has fallen from 1.3% in 2014 to 1.1% at the end of 2020. In contrast, there have been increased percentages of other minority ethnic board members (Muslim, Hindu and Sikh, and Chinese and East Asian) over the s...

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