Ms. Brown is Executive Director of Island Growth Fund Cayman Limited, a Cayman Islands mutual fund company. A Jamaican national, she has recently been awarded the Lewis Fellowship at Harvard Law School, endowed in the memory of Reginald F. Lewis, the leveraged buyout leader.
Ms. Brown was previously a Senior Executive at the Caribbean Investment Fund, L.P., the first pan-Caribbean private equity fund in the British Commonwealth Caribbean and a Chairman of the Trade Board. Ms. Brown currently serves or has served on the Board of several publicly traded Caribbean companies, and was the youngest director of two subsidiaries of the Bank of Nova Scotia (Jamaica). Ms. Brown chaired the Conduct Review Committee of the Board for Scotia Jamaica Investment Management (subsequently Dehring, Bunting and Golding). Ms. Brown was a member of the Sugar Enterprise Team, the entity appointed by the Jamaican Cabinet to oversee private sector participation in the Jamaican sugar sector.
Ms. Brown was until recently the youngest director of the Jamaican subsidiary of Mirant (USA) (subsequently acquired by Marubeni (Japan)). She chaired the Pension Fund sub-committee of the Board. She was also a member of the Board appointed by the Chancellor charged with Septennial Review of the Operations of the University of Technology (Jamaica). Ms. Brown is also an external Board Member of Caribiz, an association of Caribbean alumnae and students of Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, formed to promote capital market development in the Caribbean.
Ms. Brown was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 1994, and attended Oxford University where she received her Masters Degree in Politics. She is a 1993 graduate of Brown University with a degree in Molecular Biology and she received a law degree in 1999 from the Yale Law School. Ms. Brown was a law clerk in the chambers of the Honorable Patricia Wald (ret.) and the Honorable Keith Ellison.
Ms. Brown regularly makes presentations on capital market development in emerging economies, with a particular emphasis on the Commonwealth Caribbean. She has presented on this topic in a variety of fora including the Harvard Business School H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference, and the Whitney Young Conference of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She has represented the Caribbean in presentations at multilateral institutions including the World Bank.
More specifically, in her current research, Ms. Brown is exploring public-private partnerships in the regulation of private equity and hedge funds in emerging markets. Ms. Brown was an editor at the Yale Law Journal and has published in several leading academic and journalistic publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Yale Law Journal and has been a commentator on National Public Radio (US).
