[1][2] In 1990, after graduating from college, Blair joined the litigation team at the global law firm Linklaters.
[3] He later joined Warner Bros. Entertainment, where he became Head of Business Affairs, Europe, worked on productions such as Band of Brothers and Eyes Wide Shut, and helped acquire the film rights for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
J.K. Rowling joined his client list after 15 years with the Christopher Little Literary Agency.
[6][7] Blair is the Chairman of the Board and a Director of Pottermore and Chairman of the production companies Brontë Film and Television, founded to develop and produce projects commissioned from J.K. Rowling’s novels,[8][9] and Snowed-In Productions, founded to work on non J.K. Rowling projects.
[12] In 2017, he and his wife, Debra, supported the construction of archive space and a reading room on Exeter College’s Cohen Quadrangle to help preserve 30,000 rare books, including important Judaica such as the Soncino Bible, the earliest full text bible ever printed.