Should a seat in the boardroom be based on merit…or gender?
Should companies make board appointments in the interests of shareholders, customers and employees … or in the name of political correctness?
Or is this a necessary way of correcting imbalances in the UK’s senior management structures?
Panellists:
Chair: Ruth Lea, Economist
Janice Atkinson, WomenOn.org, journalist
Godfrey Bloom MEP, member of Gender and Equality Committee, European Parliament
Dr Clare Gerada, Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Jo Fairley, founder, Green and Black's chocolate
Professor Len Shackleton, Buckingham University and IEA Fellow
