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This year's list celebrates global role models in business who are driving inclusion for LGBTQ+ employees.
Hanneke Smits is the Global Head of Investment Management at BNY Mellon and a member of BNY Mellon Executive Committee. Throughout her career, she has been a champion of inclusion in the workplace. In 2023, Hanneke was appointed Global Chair of the 30% Club, a campaign that aims to increase gender diversity at the board and senior management levels to a minimum of 30%.
As Executive Sponsor of BNY Mellon’s LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group PRISM, she has demonstrated her steadfast commitment to BNY Mellon's LGBTQ+ employees and allies by listening, learning, and understanding the community's accomplishments and challenges. Among her many activities, she continues to advocate on behalf of LGBTQ+ issues through internal and external communications, including lobbying for the addition of pronouns to email signatures. This past Pride month, Hanneke championed PRISM and BNY Mellon’s LGBTQ+ community at a CorporateQueer exhibition at London’s Guildhall.
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