Shinbo is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of BlackRock Singapore’s Male Allies program, a role through which he is tasked with growing the pool of male champions who advocate for the empowerment of female colleagues. The position also involves supporting the broader Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) in fostering diversity, equity and inclusion. The Male Allies program is focused around building awareness of biases and behaviors that act as barriers to achieving gender equity in the workplace, while sharing experiences and practices that help build a more inclusive culture. In his role at BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship, Shinbo and his team have strengthened the expectation of board diversity, including gender diversity, by newly implementing a voting policy in 2021 which BlackRock holds existing members accountable for a lack of women on the board by voting against the re-election of directors. Outside of BlackRock, Shinbo has been appointed as Male Champion of the Financial Women’s Association (FWA) of Singapore.
