LAKS MANN MBE

South Asian Heritage Month

Laks Mann is a Creative Strategist and an award-winning Diversity and Inclusion Champion with a career spanning the corporate, charitable, and public sectors.

Laks recently ended his policing career after 15 years’ service with his final role being at the College of Policing building its first-ever National Talent Development Strategy. Laks previously qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC before joining JLL and Deutsche Bank, later moving to the charity sector to work in sustainability, before embarking on a career in policing.

Laks is a Mayor of London appointed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor to City Hall, a Trustee and LGBTQ+ Lead for South Asian Heritage Month, a Trustee for global wellbeing charity caba, and is the Founder of Gaysians UK.

Laks is a British LGBT+ Awards 2024 Finalist, was named in the inaugural Diversity Power List 2022/23 honouring the UK’s Top 50 D&I changemakers, and is the Winner of the LGBT+ Positive Role Model 2020 Award at the prestigious National Diversity Awards.  Laks was a Finalist at the Rainbow Honours 2022 and the British Diversity Awards 2020, and was also listed in the Top 30 BAME Leaders of 2020 by the University of Oxford and House of Commons.