Karen Pollock

Karen Pollock is the Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET), a charity which educates young people from every background about the Holocaust and its contemporary relevance.

Having been heavily involved in the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and the National Union of Students (NUS) in her university life, Karen started her professional life working for the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism (PCAA), where she became Director. Karen joined the Holocaust Educational Trust as Communications Director in 1998 and became the Trust’s Chief Executive in 2000.

Karen represented the Board of Deputies for British Jews at the United Nations Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa in 2001 and the Jewish Human Rights Coalition at Durban Review Conference in Geneva in 2009. She is also a regular delegate at International Task Force conferences on Holocaust Education, on behalf of the UK. Karen is involved with the work of Searchlight, a leading anti-fascist organisation and its fight against the far-right in British politics. She is a founding Trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) and member of the London Jewish Forum’s Steering Group.

In January 2012 Karen and was awarded an MBE for her services to education.