Howard Covington is a British investment banker who was a founding shareholder and director of New Star Asset Management.
After leaving university he held various positions: including government service, offshore oil contracting and commercial and investment banking.
[1] On its foundation in 2000, Mr Covington joined New Star Asset Management [2] as a founder shareholder and director.
[3] From 2015 to 2022 Covington was the inaugural chairman of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national research institute for data science and artificial intelligence established as a joint venture between the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and Warwick.
[5] ClientEarth works in Europe, Africa and China writing and enforcing environmental laws and regulations and training environmental judges and prosecutors to protect public health, accelerate the energy transition and preserve bio-diversity.