BASF legal chief Matt Lepore has achieved one of his top priorities during his first year leading the German chemical giant’s legal department—the company has taken its data-driven diversity, equity and inclusion program for outside counsel in the U.S. and Canada and expanded it globally.

Lepore trumpeted the program’s international rollout in a LinkedIn post, writing that having a DEI focus is important not only because it’s “the right thing to do, but because it’s damn good for business!!!”