Peter T. Brown was the executive director of the

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(FSF) from 2005 until early 2011. Having come from a business management and finance background, he began working for the organization in 2001 as a

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, and was promoted to executive director in 2005 after the departure of Bradley Kuhn. He was replaced by John Sullivan. He has since joined the Software Freedom Conservancy as a director and treasurer. He is from Oxford,

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. Previously, Brown also held roles as the Financial Controller at FSF and manager of the GPL Compliance Lab. Additionally, he served as a director at New Internationalist and worked at

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in London. He became an American citizen in August 2017.

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