Richard S. Brown

Richard S. Brown is the founder and corporate executive officer (CEO) of West Coast Analytics and chair of the institutional review board at the firm. He was previously a strategic data project fellow at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, the chief research scientist at the National Math and Science Initiative, and a senior researcher at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing. He was also an associate research professor at the University of Southern California, an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. Brown earned his MBA in organizational behavior and finance from the University of California, Irvine, and his PhD in advanced quantitative methodology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

updated 2025