Richard Brown

Richard Brown is Director of Society Views at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). He has worked in public policy and research roles for the last thirty years – including as a local government researcher at the Audit Commission, manager of the Mayor of London’s architecture and urbanism unit, strategy director at London Legacy Development Corporation, and deputy director at Centre for London.

Alongside his part-time role at NatCen, Richard does other freelance research and writing work – with a focus on urban policy and skills – and is a non-executive director of London Modern CIC and The Evidence Quarter CIC. He is co-author (with Richard Rogers) of ‘A Place for All People’ (Canongate 2018), and co-author and -editor (with Jack Brown and Tony Travers) of ‘London’s Mayor at 20’ (Biteback 2020).