Roger H. Brown

Roger H. Brown (born 1956, Gainesville, Georgia) is president of Berklee, cofounder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, and an international relief agency manager.

Brown graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Davidson College with a degree in physics and public policy in 1978. He then spent a year teaching science and math in Kenya before returning to the U.S. to attend Yale School of Management. After his first year at Yale, he and his wife, Linda A. Mason, co-directed Land Bridge, a famine relief program on the Cambodia-Thailand border. Working under the auspices of CARE and UNICEF, the program served as many as 25,000 people a day and was the largest emergency food distribution effort ever attempted. He then returned to Yale, earning a Masters in Public and Private Management in 1982. He and Mason wrote a book about their experiences in Cambodia, Rice, Rivalry, and Politics.