Clare Rewcastle Brown

Clare Rewcastle Brown
Born	1960 British Crown Colony of Sarawak
Nationality	United Kingdom national
Alma mater	London School of Economics
Occupation	Journalist Editor-in-chief of Sarawak Report
Spouse(s)	Andrew Brown
Parent(s)	Karen (mother)

Clare Rewcastle Brown is a British investigative journalist. Born in the former British Crown Colony of Sarawak (now part of Malaysia), she is the founder of Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak which are openly critical of the Barisan Nasional-led state government of Sarawak.

Rewcastle Brown was born in Sarawak to British parents (before the territory formed a part of Malaysia) and attended a local primary school. Her mother, Karen, was a midwife who helped look after indigenous babies at remote clinics. She moved to the United Kingdom when she was eight, attended private boarding school and subsequently obtained her masters degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. She became a journalist, joining the BBC World Service in 1983.

Clare Rewcastle Brown is married to Andrew Brown, the younger brother of former British Prime Minister Gordon. Andrew was implicated for accepting payments for a cleaner through the Prime Minister's expenses during the expenses scandal in May 2009. In a letter to The Guardian, Rewcastle Brown hit back at the accusations, saying her husband and Gordon were both using the cleaner's services under a "very ordinary" arrangement and sharing the expenses. The Telegraph, the newspaper which ran the story, later acknowledged that Andrew never received any improper benefit.

During a visit to Sarawak in 2005 to speak at an environment conference, Rewcastle Brown was asked by local journalists and activists to help publicize the deforestation in the state. However, when she began probing into the issue, she became blacklisted from the state and received death threats.

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