After a distinguished career as Head of
Diversity for Ford and Racial Equality Commissioner
Kamaljeet Jandu joins pdp.
Kamaljeet was responsible for turning around Ford of Britain
from a company that was vilified in the press for race
discrimination, experiencing litigation, to one, which is
now recognised as best in class and highly commended. This
was achieved by ensuring that the trade union organisation
was central to the organisational culture change needed.
As the National Diversity Manager for Ford of Britain he led
the delivery of a Diversity Equality Assessment Review, the
development of action plans for change and the establishment
of a network of Diversity Councils in all Ford of Britain
locations. He coordinated the development and implementation
of a new Dignity at Work policy, improved the recruitment
and selection processes and deployed a national
diversity-training programme
Before joining Ford, he was employed as a policy development
officer with the Trade Union Congress, where he was
responsible for the development of policy on race equality
and employment. He was instrumental in ensuring trade union
support for the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign. Before
joining the TUC he was a researcher with the Transport and
General Workers Union responsible for Race Equality, Local
Government and Social Justice.
Kamaljeet is a Commissioner with the Commission for Racial
Equality (CRE) and chairs the London Board of the CRE, where
he is driving the work of the Board to ensure that 'anti
poverty and equality ' are central to the major regeneration
programmes including the Olympics, Thames Gateway and
Terminal 5.He was a nominated Commissioner on the Formal
investigation in to the Prison Service and was involved in
the work on the implementation of the General Duty, Race
Equality Schemes and Race Equality impact Assessments.
Kamaljeet is an Economist by training and has numerous
publications on diversity and race to his credit. He was the
European TUC representative on the European Commission
Economic and Social Affairs Committee working on the Equal
Treatment Directive and on the advisory panel to the Fourth
National Survey on Ethnic Minorities.
Kamaljeet now leads pdp on all diversity issues.
