Brendan Brown is Chief Editor and co-founder of Global English Editing. He started in writing — completing a Bachelor of Laws at Deakin University in Melbourne before working as a writer — and moved into editing in his twenties when he saw how few accessible, professional editing services existed for academics and authors outside the major university towns. In 2012 he founded The Expert Editor in Melbourne, building it into an Australian editing service used by thesis writers, book authors, and businesses. Global English Editing followed in 2014, extending the same editing practice to international clients across academic, manuscript, and ESL editing.
At Global English Editing, Brendan hires the team of professional editors who work directly with clients on manuscripts, sets the editorial standards that apply to both client work and the editorial blog, and reviews articles before they are published on this site. He is closely involved in shaping the publication's editorial direction across writing craft, communication, language, and the psychology of reading.
He writes occasionally on the editor's view of writing — the patterns experienced editors notice in working drafts, the small habits that separate writers who finish from those who don't, and what manuscripts taught him about how language actually works.
Brendan lives in Thailand. He is a co-founder of Brown Brothers Media, the publishing company that operates Global English Editing alongside several other editorial publications.
