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Fiona is Head of Equal Opportunity and Diversity at the British Council. Born in Ghana and settling in the UK at the age of fourteen, Fiona lives in London and has a background in social work, social work education and consultancy in equality and diversity. Her qualifications include an Advanced Diploma in Social Work, a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and an M.Phil in Social Policy. She is a member of the Higher Education Academy and the Professional Mediators Association.
In 2002 Fiona received a Mainstreaming Diversity Award from the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners and in June 2005 was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her equality and diversity work. In July 2008 she won the Ghana Professional Achievers (GPA) Award for humanitarian services to the UK and Ghana and was recently presented with the Peter Robertson Award for Equality and Diversity Champions by ORC Worldwide.
Jane is Deputy Head of Equal Opportunity and Diversity at the British Council. She has worked in a range of teams within the British Council since 1995, joining the Diversity Unit in 2001. She has an MA in Promoting Equality and Managing Diversity and is based in the British Council office in Manchester. Jane lives in Manchester, where she is also involved in youth and community work.
Magnus is Projects Officer within the Diversity team. He grew up in Wakefield, England, and studied Modern History at the University of Warwick before moving to Poland where he taught English and studied for a Masters in Central and Eastern European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. After returning to England Magnus relocated to London and has been working at the British Council since 2007.
Our Global Diversity Network comprises, on average, two members from each of the 12 British Council regions. They support management teams across all British Council offices to build equal opportunity & diversity into all aspects of our work. They have the expertise and understanding of their own cultures to help reflect the issues of our staff around the world, yet at the same time they understand and are committed to the way the British Council approaches equal opportunity & diversity, to make our work more relevant across different cultures and contexts.
Stella is a freelance consultant and works with the Diversity team on the development and maintenance of the Equal Opportunity & Diversity web and intranet sites.
June is Managing Director of Equality Research and Consultancy Ltd, a company of Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the lead consultant for the analysis of equality monitoring data for the British Council and for our Integrated Equality Scheme.
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