Sir Austen Patrick Brown, KCB (born April 1940), is a British retired civil servant and businessman.
Born in April 1940,[1] Brown attended the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London.
In 1972, he entered HM Civil Service, becoming a Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Environment (DoE) in 1988.
[3] He subsequently held various directorships in the private sector[2] and was chairman of the Go-Ahead Group Plc from 2002 to 2013.
[2] Brown was appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1995 New Year honours.