Speaker

Patrick Brown

Patrick Brown is Vice President, tax for GE Power and Renewables and a GE corporate officer. He is also the director of tax policy for GE.

 

Prior to joining GE Power, Mr. Brown was a senior international tax counsel for GE corporate and GE Capital, where he primarily focused on GE’s international operations in the Nordic region, EMEA, and Canada. He also had responsibility for the company’s overall foreign tax credit position and was a principal technical advisor to the tax director of GE on tax policy matters.

 

Mr. Brown joined GE in 2002 from the US Treasury Department, where he served as attorney-advisor and associate international tax counsel from 1998-2002. During his time at Treasury, he focused primarily on international tax analysis, negotiation of tax treaties, and representing the US government at meetings of the OECD on various tax issues.

 

Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Brown was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, with highest distinction, from the University of Virginia in 1991 and a J.D. from Georgetown University, magna cum laude, in 1995.