David A. H. Brown

Canada’s leading thinker, speaker, writer and practitioner in corporate governance, David Brown has co-founded over a dozen board governance education programs including university accredited certification programs, including The Professional Director Education and Certification Program®.

Having served both as a CEO and a Board member, David is well-positioned to help corporations deal with issues in the boardroom.

David has worked at the board and CEO level with hundreds of major private, public and not-for-profit sector corporations in Canada and internationally in the field of governance, in countries ranging from Bahrain to Malaysia, Guatemala to South Africa. He and the team at Governance Solutions helps organizations strengthen their governance practices through diagnostics, benchmarking, dialogue, seminars, workshops and hands-on custom work with boards.

Prior to joining Governance Solutions Inc. in 1995, David had a distinguished 20 year career in the financial services industry. David augmented his undergraduate business degree from Queen’s in accounting and finance with post-graduate courses at the University of Alberta’s law school.

David is the author of the definitive Canadian chapter in the international handbook Corporate Governance Around the World (2008: Routledge.) David was invited to serve on his first board in Montreal at age 17, and his second board in Toronto at age 22.