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Edward Enninful, OBE

Edward Enninful is the former editor-in-chief of British Vogue, and current European editorial director of Condé Nast. He was the first Black editor-in-chief of the publication and has consistently been recognized for his leadership and achievements, including on the Powerlist Black Excellence Awards. Enninful made great waves and changes in the diversity of the brand since his start of his role, featuring many more women of diGerent races, backgrounds, body types, and professions as their cover star. In 2020 under Enninful’s leadership, Misan Harriman shot the magazine’s cover, the first Black male photographer to ever do so.

Leena Nair, CEO of Chanel

Leena Nair
The Chanel chief executive is the only woman of colour leading a major luxury brand and is poised to shake up luxury fashion, leveraging her outsider status and background in human resources. Leena Nair is the global chief executive of Chanel since January 2022.

Narita Bahra KC

Narita Bahra KC is a distinguished Barrister specializing in Criminal and Business Fraud Defence, known for her representation in significant, intricate cases. Recognized as a Financial Crime Silk in 2023, she has received prestigious honours including the 'Women of Achievement Award' in 2020, the 'Criminal Lawyer 2019' title from Legal Awards 2019, and the 'Legal Excellence Awards' from Signature Awards. Furthermore, Ms. Bahra was shortlisted for the "Women in Law Award - 100 Years Legal Awards 2019."

Her Excellency Draupadi Murmu

H.E Droupadi Murmu is the 15th and current President of India since 2022. She is the first person belonging to the tribal community and also the second woman after Pratibha Patil to hold the office. She is also the youngest person to occupy the post and the first President born in an independent India.

Gina Miller

Gina Nadira Miller is a Guyanese-British business owner and activist who initiated the 2016 R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union court case against the British government over its authority to implement Brexit without approval from Parliament.
In October 2017, Miller was named by Powerlist as the "UK's most influential black person" which recognises those of African and African Caribbean heritage.
She was also named number 26 on the list of most influential British Asians by GG2 Power List.

Kamala Devi Harris

Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and incumbent vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.
In 2005, the National Black Prosecutors Association awarded Harris the Thurgood Marshall Award. That year, she was included in a Newsweek report profiling "20 of America's Most Powerful Women. In 2013, 2020, and 2021, Time included Harris on the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Harris was selected for the inaugural 2021 Forbes 50 Over 50, made up of entrepreneurs, leaders, scientists and creators who are over the age of 50.

Baron Woolley of Woodford

Simon Andrew Woolley, Baron Woolley of Woodford, is a Member of the House of Lords and the founder and director of Operation Black Vote, and the Trustee of the charity Police Now. He has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since October 2019, and has been Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge since October 2021. He was chair of the Government of the UK Race Disparity Unit Advisory Group until July 2020. He received a knighthood in the 2019 Birthday Honours for his services to race equality. He has sat on the Lords Youth Unemployment Committee from 28 January 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Baroness Valerie Amos

Baroness Valerie Amos of Brondesbury was appointed a Labour life peer in 1997 and was the first black woman to serve as a Minister in the British cabinet and in the House of Lords. She has consistently sustained an interest in, and a commitment to, development issues, and to equality and human rights.
Valerie served as UK High Commissioner to Australia before joining the UN in 2010 as Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Malorie Blackman

Distinguished Author Malorie Blackman was born in Clapham. She has been a trailblazer in literature for decades, with her children's books such as Noughts and Crosses approaching complex topics of race and other social issues. To date, she has written over 60 children's books, and was the Children's Laureate from 2013-15.

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai Malik is a female education rights activist and Author from Pakistan, who won the Nobel peace Prize Laureate aged just 17 years old; the youngest person to ever win the award. In 2012, Malala was shot by the Taliban in retaliation to her activism for female education, but she survived and continued her important goal for womens' rights to education

Reverend Jesse Jackson

Reverend Jesse Jackson is a Civil Rights Icon, a Baptist Minister and a Politician. Throughout his life, Rev. Jackson rallied against the Racial segregation Laws of Jim Crow, racial prejudice during his academic years, and organised many Civil Rights protests. We are proud to Call Reverend Jesse Jackson a Patron of the Integration Foundation