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Co-Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Justin Brown is a co-founder of Brown Brothers Media, the company that publishes Silicon Canals, and one of its three Co-Publishers. He holds a Master of Science in Global Economic History from the London School of Economics (Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Global Studies) and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the Australian National University, where he was awarded the Hedley Bull Scholarship and graduated with First Class Honours.
His writing for Silicon Canals focuses on power structures, institutional incentives, and the gap between corporate narrative and corporate behaviour, applied across regulation, capital flows, surveillance and the politics of innovation. As Co-Publisher he sets editorial direction and standards for the site; the editor named on an article is the person who reviewed it. He is based in Singapore.
The shift from fearing judgment to fearing irrelevance isn’t a crisis — it’s the first sign you’re finally asking questions that actually matter.
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