Duncan Crabtree-Ireland JD

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland JD General Information

Biography

Mr. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland serves as National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator at SAG-AFTRA. He served as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel at SAG-AFTRA. He is responsible for broad operational oversight and organizational accountability. He oversees the legal aspects of collective bargaining and contract enforcement for all SAG-AFTRA collective bargaining agreements, as well as SAG-AFTRA's legal, government affairs, professional representatives, international affairs, governance, and diversity operations. He is a co-chair of the board of trustees of the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund, a member of the boards of Sound Exchange and the SAG-AFTRA & Industry Sound Recordings Distribution Fund, a delegate to the International Federation of Actors (FIA) and teaches international law as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Law School. He is a past treasurer of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, a past Co-President of the LGBT Bar Association of Los Angeles, and serves by appointment as a judge pro team of the Los Angeles Superior Court. Crabtree-Ireland received his Bachelor of Science in foreign service with a concentration in international relations, law, and organization from Georgetown University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Davis, School of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of Barristers.