Richard Brown (transport executive)

Richard Brown met his wife Gweno on a skiing trip and they have three grown-up children: two daughters and one son. He lives in Littleover, Derby, and commutes weekly to a flat in London. and engineering at the University of Cambridge, He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Derby in 2008. In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2007, Brown was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to transport. ==Rail franchising==

During late 2012, Brown was commissioned to undertake an independent review of the system of rail franchising for the Department for Transport. This was published in January 2013 as "The Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme". ==References==