Nearly all UK’s FTSE companies have at least one minority ethnic board member

Parker review shows progress on a year earlier – but only seven from minority backgrounds were CEOs by end of 2022

Nearly all the UK’s 100 largest listed companies now have at least one minority ethnic director on their boards, according to the latest update from the government-backed Parker review, which was set up to improve diversity in Britain’s boardrooms.

The voluntary survey of FTSE 100 companies showed that 96% of companies in the index had at least one director from an ethnic minority background on their board by the end of 2022.