Donatella Rovera has been leading Amnesty International's field investigations into violations of international humanitarian and human rights law by state and non-state actors in many situations of internal and international armed conflicts for the past 20 years (examples include: in the past year Syria, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan; earlier examples include Libya, Israel-Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ivory Coast, Israel-Lebanon, Algeria), and produced research and advocacy reports and other material on these and other issues.

She previously studied (BA and MA) politics and economics with focus on the Middle East at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, London University), and since has undertaken numerous courses in various aspects of international humanitarian and human rights law (armed conflict, refugee, policing, international criminal investigations etc).

Donatella is fluent in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian.