R/GA diversity head Carl Desir: ‘The train’s built, I’m here to help drive it to its destination’

R/GA has appointed Carl Desir, former vice president of talent initiatives from the 4As, as its first diversity and inclusion director.
Desir, who helped run the group of pipeline initiatives that includes the 45-year-old Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP), the industry’s two designated high schools MECA and IAM, and the 4As foundation has now been given global responsibility by the IPG agency to oversee and streamline the agencies inclusion practices, and weave them throughou