Dr Michael Seeraj
Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT)
Dr Michael Seeraj is the Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) at the award-winning Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) – the only dedicated Department of its kind in Professional Football across the UK.
Michael formed part of the European Union (EU) Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) influential programme examining racism, exclusion and anti-discrimination in the context of sports inclusion across the EU Member States, and is a former Chair of the London Football Association (FA) Inclusion Advisory Board. Michael also helped to establish the first ever LGBT+ Team to formally affiliate to a Professional Football Club.
The CACT EDI work has been recognised as an “outstanding example of excellence and innovation in urban integration practice” by the International Cities of Migration: Good Ideas from Successful Cities: Municipal Leadership on Immigrant Integration, and recently included as an example of Best Practice, in the Government’s Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper (2018).