Parker Review 2016 Consultation Version

The Parker Review Committee was commissioned in 2015 to consult on the ethnic diversity of UK boards. It was chaired by Sir John Parker until March 2022 and is now chaired by David Tyler, and their first report was released in 2016. This report finds that the Boardrooms of Britain’s leading public companies do not reflect the ethnic diversity of either the UK or the stakeholders that they seek to engage and represent. A key insight shows that ethnic minority representation in the Boardrooms across the FTSE 100 is disproportionately low, especially when looking at the number of UK citizen directors of colour.