Board of Deputies presidential candidate Amanda Bowman has pledged to initiate new campaigns to address “the increasingly toxic culture in public life”.

In a manifesto published on her campaign website, she says if elected she would explore a social media campaign to “counter the normalisation of antisemitism in today’s society”.

Vice-president of the organisation and head of its defence division for the past six years, she says her mission is to “build a better Board that is transparent and accountable”.

She promises a “tangible culture change” with the introduction of a “respect and civility code”.

“I won’t tolerate attempts to exclude people just because others disagree with them,” she says.

Her platform includes pledges to pilot a “Jewish equity and inclusion benchmark” for employers and to make the chair of the Board’s under-35 observer assembly a permanent member of the organisation’s executive.

She is one of four contenders for the presidency in May’s election.