Diversity Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2025

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouse Programme1 Trends and insights The corporate DEI frontier is global1.1 A pattern observed across all three editions of the programme is the diversity of geography when it comes to DEI efforts. The growing repository of Lighthouses and Highlights from 2023 to 2025 now includes programmes with proven impact in every region of the world (Figure 1).The 2025 edition received submissions from the broadest range of regions to date, with programmes operating in more than 20 different countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North America and Africa.In its third edition, this report showcases eight Lighthouses and seven Highlights, aiming to equip leaders with insights to contribute to faster DEI impact across the global business community and policy-making space. Given that there is no silver bullet for advancing diversity and inclusion and driving enduring impact, the intention behind the case studies is not to provide a list of initiatives to replicate but to illustrate key elements of what contributed to each initiative’s impact. The following section lays out trends and insights observed across the three cycles of the Lighthouse Program to date. East Asia and the Pacific Latin America and the Caribbean Europe North AmericaNumber of Lighthouse initiatives 12 1 South Asia Middle East and North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Central AsiaLighthouse initiatives implementation by economy, 2023-2025 editions FIGURE 1 Note Dot sizes correspond to the number of DEI initiatives applied in each location.Source World Economic Forum, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2023, 2024, 2025. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2025 6