SOCIAL EQUALITY
LEADING THE WAY TO PROSPERITY FOR ALL
The Most Reverend Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury © Julian Calder/Lambeth Palace
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usiness has a role to play in supporting local communities, providing opportunities for all sections of society, and increasing diversity and inclusion. That was the message from key thinkers to delegates at the CBI’s
2019 conference in London. The panel of expert speakers discussed gender parity on
company boards and the role of companies at a time when climate change and social injustice are becoming increasingly important. “Business is fundamental in fixing a broken society,” said The
Most Reverend Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. “Business has to make a proper return, but no business exists for itself alone.” He explained that good business has a community aspect to it and cited Timpson as an example of a business that deliberately employed ex-offenders and had a programme of training that is transformational at a local level within society. He added that business needs to get better at representing people at all levels. “We are still failing around disability and BAEM.” Mr Welby went on to say that, “One of the important things
Brian Gilvary, chief financial officer, BP
businesses need to do is to represent the society where they operate and that means representing them in their fullness. In terms of their diversity, in terms of who they are, their gender, their ethnicity, their sexual orientation, all of those things are crucially important.”
SUCCESS IS MORE THAN FINANCIAL Chief financial officer at BP, Brian Gilvary agreed with the Archbishop that businesses and their shareholders are now looking beyond pure profit and shareholder returns when analysing business success. He talked about how BP has work to do to ensure gender equality across the company. Mr Gilvary cited his own background, having grown up in
a council house in the north of England. His father worked as a boilerman in the town’s docks and his mother worked on the production lines of a local biscuit factory. “Business needs to represent the society where it operates in terms of gender and ethnicity,” he said. The BP board is now 50 per cent female, he
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