Biography
Zack Austin advises Dr. Alex Karp in the Office of the CEO at Palantir. Previously, he contributed to SCOTUS briefs at Jones Day; clerked for Judge Justin Walker on the D.C. Circuit and Judge Britt Grant on the 11th Circuit; co-founded a task force backed by federal legislation to honor WW1 veterans; and supported the 2018 National Defense Strategy Commission and the 2017 National Security Strategy at AEI. He graduated from Yale University and Yale Law School, where he led the Federalist Society when it was recognized as the national Chapter of the Year. His work on federal budgetary reform won FedSoc’s writing contest for authors under 40 when he was 26. Once he sailed as a deckhand on a three-masted ship for fun.
