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Bart Watson
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Brewers Association · Boulder, CO
The Brewers Association—the trade association dedicated to small and independent American craft brewers—has promoted Bart Watson to President and Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, he has been the Association’s Vice President of Strategy and Membership and was formerly its Chief Economist.
As CEO, Watson will address legislative and regulatory issues impacting independent craft breweries and producers, champion their voice in the media and across industries, oversee the development of events and resources to benefit member businesses and support the Board’s ongoing development as a strategic governing body.
Before joining the Brewers Association in 2013, Watson was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa Department of Political Science, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Berkeley Roundtable on the international economy, and a University of California Berkeley School of Public Health lecturer.
The Brewers Association (BA) is the nonprofit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers, their beers, and the community of brewing enthusiasts. The BA represents 5,600-plus U.S. breweries. The BA’s independent craft brewer seal is a widely adopted symbol that differentiates beers by small and independent craft brewers. The Brewers Association organizes events, including the World Beer Cup®, Great American Beer FestivalOpen®, Craft Brewers Conference® & BrewExpo America®, National Homebrew Competition, and American Craft Beer Week®. The BA publishes The New Brewer® and Zymurgy® magazines, and Brewers Publications® is the leading publisher of brewing literature in the U.S. Visit CraftBeer.com® and about homebrewing via the American Homebrewers Association®.