Brendan Brown is a monetary economist and currently Head of Economic Research at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (Europe). Dr. Brown is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Hudson Institute, Washington DC and an Associate Scholar at the Mises Institute (USA). His areas of expertise include monetarism in theory and practice, Austrian School monetary tradition, European monetary integration, Japanese monetary issues, the global flow of capital, and international financial history. He has developed unique tools for market analysis and recommendations for investment strategy based on a distillation of monetary economics and including insights from behavioural finance. He has applied these during a long career in international finance including his present role. Brendan has published many books on contemporary finance and financial history, including "A Global Monetary Plague: Asset price inflation and Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing" (Palgrave, 2015); "Euro Crash: How Asset Price Inflation Destroys the Wealth of Nations" (Palgrave, 2014), and "The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve" (Palgrave, 2011). He received a PhD from the University of London, a MBA from the University of Chicago, a MSc from the London School of Economics, and an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University.

Dr. Brown is a regular contributor to financial newspapers in Switzerland and Japan and also to Bloomberg TV and radio.