Patterson Brown

Patterson Brown is a nonresident fellow in GMF’s Strategic Competitiveness program. He specializes in international trade policy, economic development, and institutional reform, and has worked for more than 20 years with transatlantic partners to shape market-oriented reforms and strengthen responses to humanitarian crises. 

 

Brown most recently led the trade and economic growth team for Africa at the US Agency for International Development, overseeing its largest Africa trade and investment program. Prior to that, he served as the humanitarian adviser at the US Mission to the EU, where he expanded transatlantic cooperation on humanitarian and development assistance. He also contributed to concluding the UN Food Assistance Convention and led stakeholder engagement to shape a new European Commission public-private partnership model.

 

Brown is a political economist by training. He holds a master's degree in international trade and investment policy from George Washington University.