Patrick Brown is a British-Canadian journalist based in and living in Beijing, China.
After his GCE joined VSO, Sierra Leone (West Africa) he attended Cambridge.
He was a computer systems analyst, teacher and freelance journalist before joining Radio Canada International as a news editor.
He is a co-author, along with Rae Murphy and Robert Chodos, of the 1976 book Winners, Losers, which covered the 1975–76 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leadership campaign and convention.
Brown is now independent documentary-maker and files stories for the CBC based in China and Canada (Vancouver BC).