New York-listed Prudential Financial has named Michele Meyer-Shipp vice president and chief diversity officer.

In her new role, Meyer-Shipp will lead and direct all diversity and inclusion initiatives for the company, as well as for ensuring ongoing compliance with federal and state equal employment opportunity/affirmative action laws and requirements.

Meyer-Shipp joined Prudential in April 2010 as vice president and counsel within the employment and labor law group. In this role, she provided legal advice, counsel, training and investigative support to several lines of business, on a range of employment and human resources-related matters.

Additionally, she has previously spent four years at Merrill Lynch. In her last role there, she led the diversity and inclusion efforts of the global wealth management business.

Prudential Financial has some $961 billion in assets under management, as of June 30. The firm has operations in the US, Asia, Europe and Latin America.