Missing links
Melvin Coleman reflects on the lack of diversity among the charity sector’s captains of finance
Last spring I chaired a major conference attended by some 500 finance directors from the charity sector. As I gazed down from the stage I was again struck by a single thought. Sitting in the centre of one of the most diverse cities in the world, I see an audience which is overwhelmingly white and predominantly male. What has happened to diversity among charity finance directors?
Author: Melvin Coleman
Melvin Coleman is a former trustee of the Charity Finance Directors’ Group (CFDG) and was UK finance director of Amnesty International until his retirement in September 2009. A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (CA), he has held a number of senior positions in the not-for-profit sector, and is also a founder member of the first publicly funded Law Centre in the UK
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