Duncan Crabtree-Ireland

Career Crabtree-Ireland worked as a prosecutor for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office for two years, He has held the roles of national executive director and chief negotiator since 2021.

Crabtree-Ireland represented the trade union during negotiations of the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances, which was adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2012 and regulates copyright for audiovisual performances and expands performers' rights. He worked on an international treaty on intellectual property, and negotiated with Telemundo to create the first labor contract in the United States for telenovela actors. Crabtree-Ireland is also a judge pro tem of the Los Angeles County Superior Court and an adjunct professor at the USC Gould School of Law. as well as Variety annual list of the 500 most influential business leaders in the media industry. He was among the recipients of the Impact Award at the 7th Astra Film Awards in 2024.

Board service Crabtree-Ireland was appointed to SoundExchange's board of directors in 2012. He is chairperson of the SAG-AFTRA & Industry Sound Recordings Distribution Fund's board of trustees, as well as co-chair of the American Federation of Music & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund's board of trustees. Crabtree-Ireland is also a board member of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan, the SAG-Producers Pension Plan, and he is on the board of trustees of the Entertainment Community Fund.

Personal life Crabtree-Ireland and his husband were among the first 100 same-sex couples to get married in San Francisco in 2004 before the unions were annulled by the Supreme Court of California. The couple live in Los Angeles, and have adopted five children.