Hogan Lovells has created a new diversity and inclusion committee as the transatlantic firm prepares to drive through a diversity plan, which aims to hold office and practice managers to account.

The committee replaces the existing diversity and board diversity committees with a single body with the responsibility for both developing the firm's strategy and the power to implement it.

Chaired by London partner Ruth Grant and including firmwide chairman Nicholas Cheffings and deputy chief executive David Hudd in addition to representatives from the board, the management committee and various regions and practices, the committee's plans include drawing up a refreshed global diversity plan for 2015-18.

Hogan Lovells is already close to achieving its 2017 target, set in 2012, of having a 25% female partnership and has exceeded its 2015 target of having women occupying 30% of management positions, with 34% currently held by women. It aims to achieve a partnership that is 30% female by 2022.

The new committee will be helping to drive this target through alongside initiatives covering other areas of diversity, such as social mobility, race and sexual orientation.

As part of its plans the firm has created a diversity dashboard which sets out what it wants to achieve against a range of KPIs, with those in leadership positions – such as practice group, region and office heads – to be assessed formally against this dashboard on a regular basis.

Cheffings told Legal Week: "We're very committed to the diversity agenda but it's more than saying the right things, it's about doing the right things. This new committee and our dashboard approach enables us to make sure we're delivering on the ground."

Diversity and inclusion committee in full:

• Ruth Grant – committee chair
• Nicholas Cheffings – firmwide chairman
• David Hudd – deputy chairman
• Katlen Bl