Paula is the Executive Sponsor for Bupa’s Global Diversity & Inclusion agenda, specifically for promoting women and BAME colleagues in leadership. Recently, Bupa committed to working towards mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting, and hosted the East London Business Alliance’s ‘Board Match’ event, inviting charities that support underrepresented groups into employment. Previous to her current role, Paula was Chair of the Bupa UK Foundation. During this time, the Foundation worked with the Taylor Bennet Foundation, aiming to encourage more BAME graduates to pursue a career in communications.