The Team
The UKIED organisation is lead by a senior executive team of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) specialist directors who are supported by our expert panel and patron.
Patron – Dr Robert Berkeley, MBE
Rob Berkeley is the Founder and Managing Editor at BlkOutUk.com. With over 20 years of experience in advancing equality and justice in various fields, he holds a PhD in Education from the University of Oxford, which focussed on exclusion from school, and an MBE for his services to equality. Rob was Director of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading race equality think-tank, from 2009 until 2014. He has been Chair of Governors at a South London primary school, Chair of Naz Project London (which provides sexual health and HIV prevention and support services to various minority ethnic communities), Chair of the Black Gay Men’s Advisory Group, a Trustee of Stonewall, and a member of the Commission on 2020 Public Services. He is currently a trustee of the Baring Foundation and Doc Society, two independent foundations that support civil society organisations and filmmakers working to improve the lives of people experiencing disadvantage and discrimination.
UKIED Assessors
UKIED draws on a team of up to 40 specialist EDI assessors. UKIED only uses specialist EDI and wellbeing consultants to deliver training, provide consultancy services and quality assure the UKIED framework.
UKIED consultants come from a wide background and typically have over 15 years’ experience of working with public, private and third sector organisations as EDI specialists.
All our UKIED consultants have been subjected to a rigorous selection, assessment and approval process prior to commencing work on the UKIED programme. Once appointed, UKIED consultants are subject to regular peer assessment/review and independent analysis, which includes feedback directly from the organisations that they have worked with. All consultants are also fully professionally insured and adhere to UKIED’s strict client confidentiality requirements.