ITV has promoted creative diversity partner Sam Tatlow to head of diversity, equity and inclusion.
In the newly-created role, Tatlow will head up the broadcaster’s Diversity Acceleration Plan, oversee accessibility and disability equity, and ensure ITV meets its on- and off-screen diversity commitments.
She will also represent ITV in partnership with industry bodies such as Bafta, the CDN, DDPTV, TAP and The TV Collective.
Tatlow has been with ITV since 2020, when she led delivery of ITV’s disability agenda and has since introduced the broadcasters Inclusive Language Guide and Production Principles and the ITV Studios Disabled Writers Initiative.
She chairs Bafta’s Disability Advisory Group and sits on the academy’s Diversity Steering Group for the awards and also chairs the Disability Advisory group for Arts Council England’s All In initiative and the access scheme for Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent people accessing arts and culture in the UK and Ireland.
In the new role, she joins ITV’s executive leadership and continues to report to Ade Rawcliffe, who was promoted from group director of diversity and inclusion to chief people officer last September.
Tatlow said: “There are still so few Disabled leaders in our industry so getting this role is something I am incredibly proud of and hope my appointment creates opportunities for others.”
