Creating Growth and Jobs for a New Era

Advancing Racial and Ethnic Equity

January 17, 2024
17:30–18:15 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

Recent years have seen progress in workforce representation for people of colour, with 94% of jobs added by S&P 100 companies in the US in 2021 taken up by people of colour. Yet, systematic economic gaps remain. What are the promising pathways for accelerating fairer economic outcomes? This session is linked to the Racial Justice in Business Alliance of the World Economic Forum....
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Speakers

RG
Robert C. Garrett
Chief Executive Officer
Hackensack Meridian Health
LO
Luana Marques Garcia Ozemela
Chief Sustainability Officer
iFood
SS
Shamina Singh
President, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth; Executive Vice-President, Sustainability
Mastercard
AW
Angela Williams
President and Chief Executive Officer
United Way Worldwide

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