STRETCH 2024 AWARDS

Gavin Young

Expertise PR and Marketing
Current position & company Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Ogilvy UK
LinkedIn profile Matt Foster
Key contributions
  • With over a decade of experience in healthcare communications, Matt has led initiatives focusing on HIV advocacy, addressing health inequities and stigma within vulnerable communities.
  • He played a pivotal role in establishing Unite, WPP’s LGBTQIA+ network, which focuses on supporting diverse communities and ensuring that employee networks are developed intersectionally.
  • He created programmes that not only support marginalized communities but also drive cultural change within organisations.

Matt Foster is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at Ogilvy UK. Known as “adland’s activist” by The Drum magazine, Matt is a proudly gay, multi-racial, multicultural, and multi-ethnic British Filipino. With a distinguished career as a senior DEI leader, he is also a Non-Executive Director of Outvertising, an organisation dedicated to ensuring that brands and their creative and media partners are fully LGBTQIA+ inclusive in both their workplaces and communications.

Matt brings twenty years of experience across the marketing, PR, and advertising industries, both in the UK and globally. His career has spanned roles in-house and at creative agencies, with more than a decade spent in healthcare communications, where he focused on delivering HIV advocacy programs. These initiatives aimed to address health inequities and HIV stigma within vulnerable communities, working on behalf of organisations such as ViiV Healthcare and Gilead Sciences.