Therefore, walking into Lloyd’s of London as the market’s first black broker was a “doddle”, because the racism he encountered outside of work “did not compare”. Flint was recently recognised as the first black broker at Lloyd’s with a portrait, completed by artist Franklyn Rodgers. He became a Lloyd’s broker in 1978 and, by the time he left Alexander Howden in 1984, he was a senior broker in property and casualty. Flint explains: “Lloyd’s was not a difficult environment to live in.”He assumes that when he first walked into the underwriting room, people must have thought that he did not look like them. Indeed, after leaving Lloyd’s, he discovered that some complaints had been made by Lloyd’s underwriters to his company.

Source: The Times November 09, 2023 04:48 UTC