Ben Karl, MBA, CT, is an ATA-certified French-to-English and Mandarin-to-English translator and copywriter specializing in corporate communications, marketing, and user experience.

A member of ATA’s Board of Directors since 2021, he served as chair of ATA’s Advocacy Committee from 2021 to 2025 and on the Membership Development Committee from 2019 to 2025. He has also served on The ATA Chronicle Editorial Board since 2020 and edited À Propos, the ATA French Language Division’s blog. He is the outgoing chair of the International Federation of Translators’ (FIT) Translatio Standing Committee, which he served on from 2019 to 2025 and for which he received an esteemed Gold Pin Award in recognition of outstanding service to the federation at the XXIII FIT World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland.

Currently, he serves as chair of ATA’s Governance and Communications Committee and is ATA’s conference organizer.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in translation and East Asian Studies from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a certificate of advanced Chinese proficiency from the Beijing Language and Culture University in Beijing, China, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Nevada, Reno. He worked in-house at a major language services provider from 2011 to 2013, when he started his own boutique translation and communications company, BK Translation LLC, which is now known as Benjamin Communications.