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Ivan Menezes, CEO, Diageo
Since becoming the CEO of Diageo (DGE.L) in 2013, Ivan has been passionate about driving inclusion and diversity at the company.
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In 2020 he launched a new 10-year sustainability action plan titled ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’.
The plan laid out goals including increasing the representation of ethnic minorities in leadership positions to 45% by 2030, as well as increasing the percentage of Diageo suppliers from female and minority-owned businesses year-on-year.
2020 also saw the roll-out of a new learning intervention ‘Confronting Racial Bias Learning’, and the opening of Diageo’s fourth global ‘INC’ week; an employee-led, grassroots movement encouraging employees around the world to celebrate diversity.
The debate saw mayoral hopefuls from the four main political parties answer questions about city design and the climate challenge.
Asked whether new buildings should be adaptable enough to meet future needs, Watson said Bristol needed “good, quality buildings” that will last and can be retrofitted in the future.
“If we build cheap or ones that aren’t stylish they will get knocked down,” he said. “We see that in our city.
“I’ve seen the pictures of what the new library at the university is going to look like in a rather nice heritage area of the city, and I don’t think two square cubes on top of each other just slightly shifted is, what for me, is going to be a lasting building of any beauty in the city.
Bristol mayoral candidates slug it out in hustings on housing, city design and climate
Candidates promised to “channel former mayor George Ferguson, build a youth rowing club, turn Bristol into a “15-minute city” and build thousands of new homes
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Bristol mayoral candidates from the four main political parties have variously promised to “channel former mayor George Ferguson, build a youth rowing club, turn Bristol into a “15-minute city” and build thousands of new homes.