Richard Brown Biography

Richard Brown is a researcher and writer, specialising in urban development and governance, innovation and higher education, and London’s economy and history. Over 25 years, Richard has worked in a wide range of London institutions – helping to set up the Greater London Authority and working for the first Mayor of London, leading the Mayor’s Architecture and Urbanism Unit, supporting the London 2012 project, and leading research and events at Centre for London, the independent think tank for the capital.

Richard is co-author of Richard Rogers’ memoir, ‘A Place for All People’ (Canongate 2017), and co-editor and author of ‘London’s Mayor at 20’ (Biteback 2020), a trustee of SOAS University of London and a founding director of London Modern, which celebrates modernism in the metropolis. He has degrees in philosophy and ancient history from Oxford University, and in politics and public administration from Birbeck University of London.