Roland is an Executive Sponsor for the Shell African and Caribbean Network, and is a member of the Shell Global Finance Diversity and Inclusion Group. He often features as a panelist for UK employees on D&I topics, including ethnicity at work, gender pay gap reporting, and the importance of ethnicity declaration. He advocates for consideration of ethnicity-related issues in Shell’s senior leadership fora, with tangible results including Shell UK becoming one of the founder signatories of the Race at Work Charter, explicit D&I and ethnicity consideration during a recent reorganization, and a commitment to voluntarily publish an ethnicity pay gap report. Roland is a member of the Business in the Community Race Equality Leadership Team, where he provided input into the development of the Race at Work Charter and the development of a series of executive sponsor toolkits for race.