Doug Lowenstein

Who is Doug Lowenstein?

Douglas Lowenstein is the founder and former President of the Entertainment Software Association. He resigned on February 12, 2007 to head up the newly formed Private Equity Council.

Doug started his career as a reporter for The Buffalo Courier Express from 1973-74. He was awarded the Buffalo newspaper Guild's Rookie of the Year award in 1974. He moved to Washington, DC in 1974 to take a position as a reporter for the Capitol Hill News Service. In 1976, he joined the Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau. After six years at Cox, Lowenstein joined the Senate staff of U.S. Sen. Howard M Metzenbaum, Democrat of Ohio. He served the last two years of his five-year stint on the Hill as Metzenbaum's Legislative Director.

Doug became the first president of the ESA, then called the Interactive Digital Software Association, in June 1994. Creator and owner of the E3 Tradeshow, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, and the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, the ESA is the only association exclusively dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish video and computer games, for video game consoles, personal computers, and the Internet.