BDO USA has hired Bernadette Pieters as its first chief diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) officer. Her hiring came as the firm also announced its first DEI Transparency Report this month.Pieters job is to head the firm’s DEI strategy and lead programs and “to create impact, foster change and continue to build a sustainably inclusive and equitable culture.”
She joined BDO in 1992 and became a partner and human resources principal in 2017. Pieters has more than 25 years of HR experience and leads the firm’s people and culture talent acquisition and field teams.
