In accordance with the commitments taken Mohammed Ben Sulayem in his election manifesto, the FIA has announced the appointment of Tanya Kutsenko, the first ever Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Advisor dedicated to motor sport.

Ukrainian born, Tanya Kutsenko, is an accomplished international motor sport development expert. She has a profound knowledge of regional motor sport needs and experience in assisting ASNs on every continent, with strategy development and delivery of high impact projects to increase revenues, motor sport participation and ensure long-term sustainable growth.

In a consultancy capacity, she will be responsible for developing the new EDI motor sport strategy, in line with the FIA new course of promoting greater diversity, inclusion and doubling motor sport participation.

She will develop and embed EDI into the FIA global strategy, designing initiatives and plans to ensure sustainability of the framework over time and defining targets in line with world class organisations. She will collaborate with regions through the FIA Member Clubs network, contributing to creation of regional plans for pathways development of motor sport participation on all levels. She will oversee some of the programs and innovations to increase national and regional motor sport participation and support local initiatives.

Her mission will also support growing accessibility and developing actions to promote national and regional access, development and mobility of motor sport talent and professionals.

Reporting to the Secretary General for Sport and the Director of Development, Tanya Kutsenko will identify additional academic and motor sport engineering opportunities in conjunction with industry stakeholders.

"Equality, diversity and inclusion are a key priority of my mandate as FIA President," said Ben Sulayem. "In line with our strategy to promote greater diversity, the appointment of a dedicated and experienced Advisor in charge of these issues will allow us to accelerate inclusion and double participation in motor sport."

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1. Posted by elsiebc, 11/06/2022 3:43

"We have to get competition out of motorsport. People need to be judged by what they are, not what they do."

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2. Posted by Superbird70, 10/06/2022 21:39

"So are we all included in the exclusions, or all excluded from the inclusions? Too confusing, where is Masi to clarify?"

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3. Posted by ARL, 10/06/2022 20:57

"24 hrs is such a long time in the life of Ben Sulayem it would appear.

Mind you, given the longevity of F1 rules these days 24 hrs is probably an excessively long time in FIA circles."

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4. Posted by Italian Job, 10/06/2022 20:21

"I think that motor sport is so competitive that "inclusion" and "diversity" are fanciful. I think that with the competitiveness that there is the mantra must be "the best man/woman/cannot decide for the job". Or am I out of touch?
In other words, Roli has it 100% right."

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