Simon Walker is Chief Executive of the BVCA – The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.

 

Between 2003 and 2007 he worked at Reuters, first as Director of Corporate Communications, and subsequently becoming Director of Corporate Communications and Marketing. Before joining Reuters, he was Communications Secretary to HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace. He was previously Director of Corporate Affairs at British Airways and a non-executive director of Comair Ltd (South Africa). He was a special adviser in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street (1996-97).

 

He was previously a partner at Brunswick, the public relations group, and Director of European Public Affairs for Hill & Knowlton in Brussels. He was born in South Africa, and has worked as a journalist and consultant in New Zealand, Belgium and the UK.

 

He is a member of the Better Regulation Commission, a member of the UK-Jamestown Committee and a Trustee of the New Zealand-UK Link Foundation.

 

He read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He is married with two children.