Black Lives Matter: a statement from AAT CEO Mark Farrar
18 June 2020
As an organisation we truly believe in valuing equality, diversity and inclusion, and actively support positive change in these areas. What happened to George Floyd has highlighted that things are not changing quickly enough and this is not acceptable.
The Black Lives Matter movement has highlighted that we all need to do more and we all need to take responsibility.
I recognise that I and we as AAT can and should do more. I am passionate about ensuring our staff, students and members all have equal opportunity to succeed. As an accountant I was trained in numbers, and our numbers tell me we can do better on this specific topic. We are continuing to explore what this means for us at AAT in terms of actions, measures and impacts.
AAT has an active Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) staff group and they are already planning events throughout the year. We’ve also recommended that our staff get involved with EDI group activity so we can all get behind this movement and make sure that we, as an organisation, are helping to lead the way.
The events of recent days remind us that we cannot look the other way.
Mark Farrar, CEO at AAT
