Top firms given four years to appoint ethnic minority directors

Measures introduced after review finds only 85 of 1,050 directors in FTSE 100 companies are from ethnic minoritiesBritain’s biggest companies have been given four years to appoint one board director from an ethnic minority background as part of a package of measures outlined in a government-backed review into the lack of diversity at the top of corporate Britain.Sir John Parker, the chairman of the mining company Anglo American, who conducted the review, said it should be a wake-up call fo