Karen Pollock CBE is the Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust.

She started her professional life working for the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism (PCAA), where she became Director. She joined the Holocaust Educational Trust as Communications Director in 1998 and became the Trust’s Chief Executive in 2000.

Karen was a founding Trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, is a Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council and an Advisor to the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation.

In 2012 Karen was awarded an MBE for her services to education in the UK. In 2020, she was awarded a CBE for services to Holocaust education.