My passion for diversity comes from the fact that I am diverse. To state the obvious, I tend to stand out in a room - turbans and beards will do that to you. My part-time hobby is being "randomly" searched at airports! And I run a global company. That's not exactly common for someone who looks like me. And I can tell you there have been a hundred times when I've felt different from everybody else in the room. But I realised very early in my career that if I weren't comfortable with myself, then I couldn't succeed. It's critical that you figure out who you are and be comfortable with it.What's important is what you do and how you do it, not where you come from or what you look like. That's going to be very important for your future. So, let me put this to you in a different way. In nature, you get penalised for not being diverse enough. Being a panda and having bamboo as your only food source quite dramatically increases your chances of becoming extinct. You get penalised for this in th

Ajay Banga

Ajay Banga

Ajay Banga

The importance of diversity