Karim Palant is Director of External Affairs at the BVCA leading the Public Affairs, Communications and Research functions. He has two decades of tech and economic policy experience. Since 2015 he has led public policy and economic impact projects for LinkedIn and previously Facebook. Prior to that he had extensive experience working in politics and policy making including acting as Head of Policy to the Shadow Chancellor. Based in London, he studied PPE at Oxford University having attended Calderstones Comprehensive School in Liverpool.