Geerart Bourlon
Geerart Bourlon is Vice President, Global Content Protection Legal at the Motion Picture Association. His key responsibility is the management of all legal enforcement matters for the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Before exclusively handling ACE content protection matters, Geerart was Deputy Head of the Legal Department at MPA EMEA, largely focusing on outreach to and civil proceedings against online intermediaries involved in copyright disputes, including website blocking.
Geerart has 15 years’ experience in developing legal strategies for rights holders, of which 10 years at MPA and, prior to that, 5 years at the content protection organization representing the Belgian audiovisual, music, ebooks and videogames sector.
Geerart holds Master’s degrees in both Law and Criminology from the University of Ghent and an additional Master’s degree in Intellectual Property Rights Law from the Brussels/Leuven University.