David Brown is a Professor in the business school at the University of Technology Sydney. His research, teaching, and external engagement is primarily focused on how to design and use management and accounting systems to address behavioral, decision making and coordination problems in organizations, and determinants of performance. The context for David's research spans aged care, environmental sustainability, mental models and decision making, interorganisational research contracting, open strategy and innovation, sustainable agriculture, and research performance in universities.

David is co-founder and co-director of the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC), a six faculty pan university network of researchers focused on enabling social, economic, and environmental care and support for ageing Australians. Nested within UARC is the Australian Aged Care Sector biannual report, the Star Ratings Dashboard, and programs of research including multidimensional models of aged care systems, and determinants of organisational and sector performance.