Kerry Brown is the Professor of Employment and Industry in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University. She is a Program Leader for the Governance and Organisational Planning Program of the Asset Institute and member of Asset Management Committee IPWEA.

Professor Brown is a founding Executive Board Member of the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) (2006-2012) and Founding Fellow of the International Society for Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM) since 2007. She has published extensively with 5 books, numerous book chapters and over 120 journal articles. She has been awarded 9 Australian Research Council Linkage Grants and many industry research grants. Professor Brown specialises in change management; collaboration, networks and business clusters; capability, strategy, management and policy for infrastructure and asset management; public management and policy; government-business-community relations; negotiation and employment relations.