Lopa Patel

Lopa Patel MBE is founder and CEO of Diveristy UK, a think tank set up to research, advocate and promote new ideas for improving diversity and inclusion in Britain.
She is also a digital media entrepreneur and founder of the online South Asian Lifestyle portal Redhotcurry.com and ecommerce website TheRedhotshop.com. She is an experienced marketing consultant who previously set up the direct marketing services company DMS Direct Ltd, where she worked with international companies, charities and not-for-profit organisations, marketing agencies and SMEs in a broad range of industry sectors. She is a Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), the Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM) and the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA).
She was recognised with an MBE for services to the creative industries in 2009.
Lopa is currently a Non-Executive Director of EMBG (Ethnic Minority Business Group) and a Trustee of educational charity Raha International.