Top UK companies short of BAME directors
Search firm Spencer Stuart finds few directors from a black, Asian or ethnic minority among the top 150 FTSE companies.

Strength in diversity. Photo: OregonDOT, Flickr.
There are just 73 black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) directors out of 1,454 on boards across the top 150 FTSE companies in the UK, according to the latest Board Index from search firm Spencer Stuart.
The survey also found that just 23 of the 73 BAME directors are British citizens, representing 1.6% of all directors; and where there is a female chairman of the board, 39.5% of non-executives will also be women.
Spencer Stuart's report noted that, as in the US, UK corporates with female chairmen (there are six in the 150 FTSE companies included in the research) have an above average number of female non-execut