Patrick Brown

Sir Austen Patrick Brown, KCB (born 14 April 1940), is a British retired civil servant and businessman.

Life and career Born in April 1940, Brown attended the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. He worked in the private sector, in Carreras Ltd from 1961 to 1969 and then as a management consultant with Urwick Orr and Partners from 1969 to 1972; in both roles, he worked extensively in Europe. In 1972, he entered HM Civil Service, becoming a Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Environment (DoE) in 1988. He was then Second Permanent Secretary in the DoE and Chief Executive of the Property Services Agency from 1990 to 1991 and then Permanent Secretary of the Department of Transport from 1991 to 1997. He subsequently held various directorships in the private sector He also served as chairman of the Oil and Gas Authority from 2015 to 2018.