Professor A J Brown AM is professor of public policy and law in the School of Government & International Relations, Griffith University, where he specialises in public integrity, accountability, governance reform and public trust. He is also Chair of Transparency International Australia, the world anti-corruption organisation, having served since 2010 on the TI Australia board of directors, and from 2017-2022 on the TI global board. In 2019-20, he led development of TI’s worldwide strategy ‘Holding Power to Account, 2021-2030’. In 2023, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the law and public policy, particularly through whistleblower protection.

A 30-year veteran of developments in public integrity systems, he has worked or consulted at all levels, and across all branches of government in Australia, including as a senior investigator for the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Associate to Justice G E Tony Fitzgerald AC KC, ministerial policy advisor, delegate to the Australia 2020 Summit (2008), and member of the Commonwealth’s Ministerial Expert Advisory Panels on Constitutional Recognition of Local Government (2011) and Whistleblower Protection (2017-2019). In 2024, he was appointed to the Public Sector Governance Council of Queensland for a three year term.

AJ has led seven Australian Research Council projects into public integrity and governance reform since 2005, including two establishing the Australian Constitutional Values Survey, three into public interest whistleblowing, and the 2020 Australian Research Council Linkage Project report, ‘Australia’s National Integrity System: The Blueprint for Reform’. He currently leads a $1.2 million Australian Research Council Discovery project on public trust, mistrust and distrust. He is a past President of the Australian Political Studies Association (2017-18), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.