Diversity, Assessment, Development and Well-Being specialist Professor Binna Kandola is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Senior Partner and co-founder of Pearn Kandola. His areas of expertise are diversity and inclusion, equal opportunities, assessment and development. He is particularly interested in understanding bias and finding ways to reduce it. In the last twenty years, he has worked on a wide variety of projects for public and private sector clients both in the UK and overseas. As well as leading the practice, Binna is the co-author of several books, one of which, Managing the Mosaic, won a Special Commendation at the 1994 Management Book of the Year Awards. He is also a regular contributor to the HR and business press and conference speaker.

Binna was the first Chair of the Standing Committee for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a member of Sir Robin Butler's Panel of Enquiry into Equal Opportunities in the Senior Civil Service. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the BPS, and in 2002 was elected as Chair of the Division of Occupational Psychology. In January 2004, Binna was invited to join the UK Government's National Employment Panel and appointed Chair of the Minority Ethnic Group. He was a former visiting Professor of the Institute of Work Psychology at Sheffield University and is currently a visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School and a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute at the National School of Government. Binna is a Fellow of the RSA, a consulting editor for the Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and a regular columnist for Asian Enterprise magazine as well as an editorial board member of Development & Learning in Organisations. The Independent on Sunday recognised him in 2004 as one of the UK's Top Ten Occupational Psychologists.

Professor Binna Kandola was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours list for his services to Disadvantaged People and Diversity.