19 March

Royal Mail's Adam Crozier to lead employers on disability

The Employers' Forum on Disability (EFD) is delighted to announce that Adam Crozier, Chief Executive of Royal Mail Group, has today been appointed Chairman.

Crozier will assume the post from acting Chair, Dame Julie Mellor, who is partner at professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He formerly worked for advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi, and was Chief Executive of the Football Association from 2000 to 2002.

Since his appointment as CEO of Royal Mail Group in 2003, the company has launched the 'Chairmans' Diversity & Inclusion Awards' and won a number of awards for its work in promoting diversity in the workplace.

Chief executive of EFD, Susan Scott-Parker says: "We would like to thank Dame Julie Mellor for her efforts as acting Chair during the past few months and welcome Adam Crozier.

"As Chief Executive of Royal Mail, Adam Crozier plays an important part in promoting the economic and social inclusion of disabled people as employees and customers.

"Royal Mail and in particular the Post Office has a vital role to play in ensuring disability equality - the Post Office serves more disabled people than any other organisation in the UK.

"Royal Mail has been a core funder of the EFD for many years, working in partnership with us as we build our capacity to enable business, and public sector organisations, to become disability confident

"We are extremely pleased that he has demonstrated his personal and professional commitment by accepting the Chair of EFD, and we look forward to working with him - and to his leadership."

Adam Crozier says: "I am extremely pleased to have been invited to take on this role.

"Ensuring equal opportunity for all is hugely important to us at Royal Mail and I look forward to helping to promote and develop the terrific work which the Employers' Forum on Disability does with employers throughout the UK."

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For further information on the Employers' Forum on Disability contact the Forum press office

Issy Rule
Employers' Forum on Disability press office
Telephone: 020 7403 3020
Mobile: 07754 522 521
Email: issy.rule@employers-forum.co.uk
Web: www.employers-forum.co.uk

The Employers' Forum on Disability

The Employers' Forum on Disability is the world's leading employers' organisation focused on disability as it affects business. Funded and managed by 400 members, we make it easier to recruit and retain disabled employees and to serve disabled customers.

About Royal Mail Group

Royal Mail Group plc is a public limited company wholly owned by the Government. It became a plc on 26 March 2001 under the Postal Services Act 2000.

Since then Royal Mail has turned losses of more than £1 million a day three years ago into a £537 million profit from operations in 2004-05.

Royal Mail Group has been a Gold Card member of the Employers' Forum on Disability for 15 years.

Royal Mail Group's previous involvement with the EFD included publishing the 'How to get your money at the Post Office' guide for people with learning difficulties and hosting a 'Dining with a Difference' event which brought together senior managers and disabled professionals to discuss disability in the workplace.

Royal Mail Group is also working with the charity Mindroom, to develop a strategy for employing people with learning difficulties.