Justin Hugh Brown PSM is a senior Australian public servant and former officer with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Brown is currently a non-executive director of Wine Australia, a statutory corporation that promotes and regulates the Australian wine industry. [1]
First educated at Marist College Canberra, Brown earned a Bachelor of Economics from the University of New England. [2]
From 2004 to 2006, Brown held the post of Ambassador for the Environment and Chief Negotiator on Climate Change. [3]
Brown's posts have included First Assistant Secretary, Office of Trade Negotiations; First Assistant Secretary, Consular and Crisis Management Division; High Commissioner to Canada (2008-2011); [4] and Deputy Head of Mission, Australian Embassy, Brussels (1999–2001). [2]
In July 2015, Brown was awarded the Public Service Medal (PSM) for "outstanding public service in leading the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Canberra-based crisis response to the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17." [5]
He held the post of Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, the European Union and NATO from February 2018 to January 2021. [6] [7]
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For outstanding public service in leading the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Canberra-based crisis response to the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
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