He has worked at major HR consultancies and research institutes including Aon and Willis Towers Watson. He was deputy CEO at CIPD for 5 years.
Brown’s clients have included Shell, Royal Holloway University, NHS Employers and Unicef UK. He has advised government on a range of issues including pay determination for doctors and dentists; and the development of the Gender Pay Gap Reporting regulations in 2017.
He has just authored the CIPD’s new guide on ethnicity pay reporting and wrote their recent report on employment status. He is the joint author with Michael Armstrong of the UK’s best-selling Handbook of Reward Management.
Brown has an MA from Cambridge University, an MBA from the London Business School, his PhD was in reward strategy and he is a Chartered Companion of the CIPD.
He is a board trustee at the High Pay Centre, the Involvement and Participation Association and the Pensions Policy Institute.
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Duncan Brown was ranked 41st on the list of HR Most Influential Thinkers in 2021.
