Stephen Browne has worked for different organisations of the United Nations development system, most recently as deputy executive director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), Geneva - the technical-assistance trade organisation of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). He is now director of FutureUN.org - a project examining the United Nations development system (including its evolution, its gaps, its duplications) in order to seek improvements.

Stephen Browne’s books include Aid and Influence: Do Donors Help or Hinder? (Earthscan, 2006); (with Sam Laird); The International Trade Centre: Promoting an Export Culture (forthcoming, Routledge 2011); and The United Nations Development Programme and the UN Development System (forthcoming, Routledge, 2011)