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Calls for diversity in boardrooms
- Updated: November 23, 2016
Last week the Sports People’s Think Tank produced its annual report which once again highlighted a lack of representation of BAME (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnicity) professional football coaches within the game.
It came as no surprise to former Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts, although he was positive that change had the potential to occur.
So what about representation of BAME within administration or board level roles within sport? At a Sporting Equals event in London, the figures were stark.
Recent audits conducted by Sport England and UK Sport on the equality and diversity profile of the boards of National Governing Bodies of sport (NGB’s) and senior management teams illustrate that there is a significant lack of BAME diversity.
Figures from 2015 suggest that only 17 out of 604 board positions (2.8 per cent) have BAME members and only one has a BAME CEO.
Sport England’s Phil Smith addressed the event and also told Sky Sports News HQ: “It’s time for action. We need to change things and …
