RIBA appoints first-ever director for inclusion and diversity
1/1 Marsha Ramroop, the RIBA's new director for diversity and inclusion
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The RIBA has appointed a director for inclusion and diversity for the first time in its 187-year history
Marsha Ramroop, a cultural intelligence expert and trustee of the Institute for Equality and Diversity Practitioners, becomes the RIBA’s seventh director, working under chief executive Alan Vallance.
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The RIBA has faced a string of controversies over ethnic and gender diversity in recent times. Its ‘retrograde’ plans for a cookery class for parents for International Women’s Day were dropped after a protest by architects and its clash with RIBA presidential candidate Elsie Owusu over alleged 'race and sex discrimination' culminated in an employment tribunal.