Biography
Ben Golant is the Senior Director for Global Games Policy at Tencent America, the world’s largest video game company, where he serves as the company’s interactive entertainment law and policy expert in international markets. Prior to that, Ben was an Adjunct Law Professor at Georgetown University and Chief Counsel for IP and Legal Policy at the Entertainment Software Association in Washington, DC. There, he represented the video game industry before the US Congress, courts, the executive branch, and government agencies involved in IP policy, ecommerce/online platform matters, and consumer technology issues. Golant started at ESA in October 2015 after working in senior legal roles at three US agencies: (1) the Federal Communications Commission, (2) the United States Copyright Office, and (3) the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is an expert on copyright, technology, and content regulation matters. He earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he focused on communications law, and his BA/BS in social psychology and advertising from Boston University.
