Blog: Why the industry needs Race Action Through Leadership
Gallagher Re’s Abbhi Bala outlines why the insurance space needs another organisation to promote diversity across the market.
When we launched Race Action Through Leadership (RATL) as a new cross-industry collaboration initiative last month, some may have queried whether the insurance sector really needed another race initiative.
It’s a valid question. After all, we already have iCAN – the Insurance Cultural Awareness Network, set up to support multi-racial inclusion across the industry; and ACIN – the African-Caribbean Insurance Network, with its mission to boost ethnic representation and empower ethnic minorities by
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