Bruno Daniel – Interim Equality and Diversity Coordinator, Royal College of Nursing

Bruno has a public service related background having served 24 years in the Royal Navy, starting from as an engineer in 1976 to a Chief Petty Officer Physical Training Instructor, leaving the service in 2000. He then worked for Devon Fire and Rescue Service for 5 years as their Fairness at Work Advisor, where he pioneered much of the services EDI work during this period. In 2005 he went to work for a charitable organisation, Business in the Community, leading on the Race for Opportunity initiative across the South West England and Wales before joining Wolverhampton City PCT in 2007 as Head of Equality and Diversity.

In 2013,  he was appointed as the Senior Equality Diversity Lead for a leading Mental Health Trust in Birmingham to support the workforce element of policy development and implementation and responding to equality issues from both corporate and operational areas. In 2016, Bruno was appointed as a Senior Officer with the Royal College of Nursing in the West Midlands Region and then as the Inclusion Programme Lead for the RCN to manage the Cultural Ambassadors programme. Bruno is currently the Interim EDI coordinator for the RCN.