Chris Brown (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Christopher Charles "Chris" Brown CBE is a retired British Army officer who was the last General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland.

Educated at Brentwood School and University College, Cardiff, Brown was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1974.

In 1994 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. He then went to Sarajevo as Assistant Chief of Staff for the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps during the Bosnian War. In 1999 he was appointed Commander Royal Artillery for 1st Armoured Division and in 2002 he became Director, Royal Artillery. In 2004 he returned to Allied Rapid Reaction Corps as Chief of Staff. He became the last General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland in 2008: The post was downgraded to that of a Brigadier when Brown left in 2009. In March 2009 he was deployed as Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General, Multinational Force, Iraq and in 2010 he became the Iraq Compendium Study Team Leader. He retired from the Army in 2010.

After retiring from military service, Brown worked as an advisor to the African Union on security for the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum. He now works for the Brenthurst Foundation, an NGO, and lectures on diplomacy at the University of London.