I like to think of myself as a modern-age Nostradamus: here are 15 predictions for the New Year My 2022 forecast (here) was strangely not bad for once. Granted, some unexpected developments such as the war in Ukraine or Morrison’s defeat in Australia precipitated positive developments I had foreseen. On…

LGBTQ+ people only represent 0.6 percent of all corporate board members in Fortune 500 companies in 2022 (see our tracker here), an increase of only 0.1% over the past 5 years. Until this year, LGBTQ+ people were the only underrepresented group in the Boardroom without an organization to prepare, network…

Madelyn Flores: Fabrice, only 0.6% of board seats are occupied by LGBTQ+ people. When we think about pipeline as well for these positions, only 25% 2 of S&P500 companies even disclose if they have directors who identify as LGBTQ+. …

Radical cultural relativism versus universality of human rights Some in the Muslim world and elsewhere are riled up by what they perceive as the hypocritical Western denunciation of Qatar in the context of the World Cup. “Y’all insisting one wearing the one love band is just disrespectful to the people…

In Qatar, Colorado Springs or across the river When I came out to the first person in my family, my grandmother– finally safe 4,000 miles away from my home — she told me “not to get AIDS”. It was a pretty usual reaction in 2001. …

Before joining the Annual Summit of the National Association of Corporate Directors in Washington this week, we carefully cross-examined the list of participants against the lists of the Association of LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors: counting 4 lesbians and 4 gay men (only 3 actual board directors — namely Maggie Fitzpatrick, Romy…

Bros and the quest for the perfect gay movie: an equally neurotic critic When critics called out Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” in its London iteration as not being inclusive enough, my response was: “a work of art is never meant to be everything to anybody”. I should eat my own…

The parable of Fouquet’s fête Every little Frenchman’s favorite history lesson is that of the “Vase de Soisson”. Similarly imposed in the collective memory of the French is the story of Nicolas Fouquet’s fête at Vaux le Vicomte. Fouquet [1615–1680] was the French finance minister in the early years of…

Thank you for your kind words Betsy and thank you for saying “yes” when I asked you to lend your name, expertise and knowledge to the Association. It is an honor to have you on our Advisory Board. Let me also echo our gratitude to our friends at JP Morgan…