Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at INSEAD

While we recognise that we will need to work creatively within the context of the legal restrictions in the countries where we have campuses, we remain committed to encouraging diversity of backgrounds among our students, staff and faculty.  

• Students. We are doubling our scholarship budget for students from under-represented backgrounds, including from Africa. We will create a new position on diversity in the marketing and recruitment team of our Degree Programmes department, and we will continue to analyse and act on the parameters that would allow greater diversity in our student applications. 
• Staff. We will develop a plan to align with best practices to increase the diversity of our staff in accordance with legal requirements of countries where our campuses are located. 
• Faculty. We will create a fund to facilitate faculty exchange from under-represented backgrounds and for subject-matter experts on relevant topics. We will work with the PhD Project to increase the diversity of our faculty pipeline and engage other business schools in this effort to amplify our impact.  

• We will launch a fund dedicated to developing cases that portray minority protagonists, have broad national diversity and address discrimination and injustice.  
• We will incorporate material and conversations on systemic racism and equity, diversity and inclusion in our curricula, from launch week of our programmes to specialised electives. We have launched a new elective on diversity, equity and inclusion.  
• We have initiated a series of research-based webinars to increase the lifelong learning of all members of our community on equity, diversity and inclusion. The first session was held on July 16th, 2020, as part of our INSEAD Summer Learning Festival and focused on systemic racism and the role of business leaders in addressing it.  

• We have allocated €50,000 seed funding from our Research and Development Committee to projects on equity, diversity and inclusion with the view to increase this earmarked envelope every year.  
• We are creating an INSEAD Knowledge page on equity, diversity and inclusion to display and discuss all of INSEAD's research on the topic.  
• We will lead the conversation by holding a regular academic conference on equity, diversity and inclusion. The 2020-21 academic year will have two: (i) the “Women at Work” conference looking inter alia at gender intersections with race in March 2021 in Abu Dhabi [or held virtually, should travel not be possible] and (ii) the inaugural "Business in Africa" conference in partnership with Brookings