Antonio Zappulla

ICA18 Shortlisted Nominee.

Diversity Champion Award for Private Sector

Antonio Zappulla is Chief Operating Officer at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the world’s leading news and information provider. An outspoken supporter of the business case for LGBT+ rights, Antonio is the founder of Openly, the world’s first global platform dedicated to coverage of LGBT+ stories with distribution to 1 billion Reuters clients daily. In 2017, Antonio was ranked fourth in the 2017 OUTstanding list of public sector LGBT executives published by the Financial Times. He is also a European Young Leader and a finalist for the Out&Equal Champion Award.Antonio is a One Young World Ambassador. He co-chairs the Thomson Reuters Pride at Work Network and is the President of the Board of All Out, a leading LGBT+ human rights charity. Additionally, he sits on the Board of OUT in Business at the London Business School.