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2015 World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos: Companies and governments must keep up the momentum on diversity – Rain Newton-Smith, CBI Director of Economics

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Rain Newton-Smith is the Confederation of British Industry’s Director of Economics. Previously, Rain was Head of Emerging Markets at Oxford Economics where she managed a large team of economists and was the lead expert on China. Before that, Rain worked in monetary policy and international forecast to the MPC at the Bank of England where she led a team with responsibility for developing a risk assessment framework for the UK financial system; her tenure included a secondment to the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. where she was Adviser to the UK Executive Director.

Rain Newton-Smith
Rain Newton-Smith

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international institution best known for its Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which this year is being held from 21st – 24th January. The CBI’s Director for Economics, Rain Newton-Smith is attending, along with a record number of participants including 1,500 business leaders from over 100 countries, more than 40 heads of state and government and 300 members of government. 17% of Davos participants are female.

Perfect opportunity to once again raise the issue of gender diversity

With many of the world’s business and political leaders gathered in Davos, now is the perfect opportunity to once again raise the important issue of greater diversity in the workplace.

Businesses benefit significantly from diversity – that much is clear – but to keep momentum up both companies and the governments must focus on building the talent pipeline.

Better careers advice to get more girls into science and maths subjects, mentoring support at work and embedding family friendly policies will help to boost diversity and reduce the gender pay gap.

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