The SDG Impact of COVID-19: The view of Sandra Kerr, Director of Race Equality at Business in the Community

2nd July 2020

In this segment, RELX’s Global Head of Corporate Responsibility, Dr Márcia Balisciano, talks to Sandra Kerr, Director of Race Equality at Business in the Community.

Before joining Business in the Community, Sandra worked in the Cabinet Office advising on diversity and inclusion. In January 2012, Sandra was awarded an OBE for services to Black and Minority Ethnic People.

In 2015, Sandra spearheaded the largest ever survey on race in the workplace with 24,457 responses. In January 2016, she was invited to join the Royal Society Diversity Committee. The Race at Work 2018 Scorecard report, one year from the government review into Race in the Workplace, provided the evidence to establish the Race at Work Charter and Ethnicity and Pay consultation announced by the Prime Minister in October 2018.

In 2019, Sandra was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for Services to Equality and Diversity.