Ben Challis
Ben Challis is a UK lawyer specialising in music and entertainment law. A graduate in law from Kings College London and the City University, Ben also holds the degree of Master of Arts in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester and is is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Ben acts as General Counsel for 3A Entertainments, one of the UK’s leading concert promoters, and is Executive Producer for television of the Glastonbury Festival. Glastonbury is the UK’s leading music and arts festival attended by over 177,000 people. For Glastonbury, Ben combines the role of managing the Festival’s broadcast and other media rights alongside acting as General Counsel for the Festival. Ben’s other clients have included the Prince’s Trust, the Granada Media Group, Pioneer LDCE and British Telecom.
Ben regularly writes articles and other material on music business and intellectual property law, contributes to books, teaches law and is a regular conference speaker in particular on the live music industry. Ben sits as a magistrate in Cumbria, England. Ben is also co-founder of A Greener Festival which was set up in 2006 to champion sustainable events and promote environmentally friendly practices at music and arts festivals.
A Greener festival promotes an annual awards scheme (The Greener Festival Awards) for green festivals in association with the UK Festival Awards and they also endorse a discount insurance scheme for green events provided by Robertson Taylor insurance brokers. AGF also have ongoing training and research activities.