Marion Bentata

Marion strongly believes in the power of education and visibility when it comes to making the workplace more inclusive. As Co-Chair of the State Street UK Pride Network and Chair of the Interbank’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, she acts as a role model for LGBT+ women, regularly appearing on panels to discuss the specific issues they face. This has included featuring on the “Corporate activism: the second full-time job” panel organized in the framework of the 2020 EUROUT conference, and the “Inclusivity in the workplace” event organised by Out in Business. She has also been responsible for organizing events herself, for instance featuring women’s stories from the birth of the modern LGBT+ movement at Stonewall to the present day. Marion is also credited for setting up a diversity committee within Interbank, the network of LGBT+ networks for financial services firms in the UK. Tremendous progress has been made in women representation and visibility in the wake of this initiative.