Biography
Benjamin Lee is an American attorney who serves as Reddit's chief legal officer and corporate secretary. He joined Reddit in September 2019 as executive vice president and general counsel, was named corporate secretary in October 2019, and was elevated to chief legal officer in March 2022. He holds a law degree from Columbia Law School and an undergraduate degree from Yale University.
Before Reddit, Lee held senior legal roles across the technology industry, including general counsel of the fintech company Plaid, and earlier legal positions at Airbnb, Twitter, and Google. As Reddit's top lawyer, he oversees the company's legal, policy, trust-and-safety adjacent legal matters, and corporate governance functions, and he has been a public voice on issues of platform liability and intellectual property.
Lee's tenure has spanned a period of significant legal and regulatory activity for Reddit. These include the company's preparation for and execution of its March 2024 initial public offering, disputes over access to Reddit's data, and the broader industry debate about how user-generated platforms handle content moderation, copyright, and the use of platform data to train artificial-intelligence systems. He has spoken publicly, including at academic and industry forums, about the legal questions raised by AI's use of online content.
As an executive officer of a publicly traded company, Lee is named in Reddit's regulatory filings and is among the leaders responsible for the company's compliance and disclosure obligations. His role places him at the center of how Reddit navigates copyright, privacy, and platform-governance questions, areas that have grown more consequential as Reddit has licensed its data and positioned itself within ongoing debates over the legal status of AI training data. Coverage of Lee generally focuses on these governance and policy dimensions rather than on controversy attached to him personally.