Kulvinder Hira

Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

London Ambulance Service

Kulvinder Hira is the Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at London Ambulance Service and joined the service in April 2023. Kulvinder is the co-chair of the National Ambulance EDI Forum and is engaged at regional level across broader EDI work streams.

She is an experienced EDI consultant with 25 years’ knowledge and expertise in reducing inequalities and is a passionate advocate for social justice and human rights.  Kulvinder has previously worked across diverse sectors such as local authorities, commissioners, acute, and mental health trusts, higher education institutions and the third sector where she started her career and is the first female vice chair of a local charity.

She is a specialist Advisor on Governance and EDI for the Care Quality Commission, ensuring inspections at hospitals are well led and effective.  Influencing and operating at a national and regional level. Kulvinder is from a Hindu Punjabi background with strong values focused on righteousness, humanity and fairness are of utmost importance.

She is a mother of four and a grandmother and has lived experience of cultural and institutional barriers and has aimed to remove these for herself and in all aspects of work and life to support others.