Donna Covey CBE

Donna is Chief Executive of AVA - Against Violence and Abuse. She started her career in the trades union movement, specialising in equality and diversity issues, spending 10 years on the TUC General Council. She has run a number of third sector organisations, including Asthma UK and the Refugee Council.

She has written extensively on health, equality and human rights issues.

She sits on a number of national groups advising on Violence against Women and Girls issues, and is executive chair of IRISi, the social enterprise overseeing IRIS, the gold standard intervention for domestic abuse in general practice.

Outside of work, she is Chair of Wandsworth Care Alliance.

In 2014, Donna was awarded the CBE for services to equality and human rights.