Dr Malcolm E. Brown has a BA (Open University), master (University of Bradford) and doctorate (University of East Anglia) degrees in natural and social science research who was elected (2021) a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (FRPharmS) for distinction in the profession of pharmacy. He has worked in senior positions as a production manager (big Pharma) and in the British NHS including at director level — and as a community pharmacist. He has tutored many future pharmacists and trained the “entire” sales force of a major international company on selling medicines to the NHS. He has certified batches of medicine as an EU (or post-Brexit equivalent) Qualified Person (QP). Several licences for human, veterinary and investigational medicinal products named him. He has audited and advised in several countries. He was the keynote speaker at an international multidisciplinary conference at the Hague. Dr Brown is an award-winning writer with over 151 publications who writes the “Bottled Brown” column in the Industrial Pharmacy, an official journal of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). Dr Brown is an honorary careers mentor at the University of East Anglia.