Willie Brown Jr.

Willie Brown Jr. General Information

Biography

Mr. Willie Brown serves as an Advisor at Global Blood Therapeutics. Mr. Brown serves as an Advisor at WI Harper Group China. Mr. Brown served over 30 years in the California State Assembly, spending 15 years as its speaker, and later served as the 41st mayor of San Francisco, the first African American to do so. Brown served as San Francisco mayor from January 8, 1996, until January 8, 2004. His tenure as mayor is marked by a significant increase in real estate development, public works, city beautification, and other large-scale city projects. He presided over the "dot-com" era at a time when San Francisco's economy was rapidly expanding. After leaving the mayor's office, Brown established The Willie L. Brown, Jr. Institute on Politics & Public Service, an unaffiliated nonprofit organization at San Francisco State University. The center trains students for careers in municipal, county, and regional governments. The center will be one of the first to focus on local government in the country. In September 2013, the western span of the Bay Bridge was officially named for Willie Brown, and in 2015, Mr. Brown was named to the board of directors of the San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company Global Blood Therapeutics. Mr. Brown earned a bachelor's degree from San Francisco State and a law degree from the University of California Hastings. He serves as a Board Member at Tomi Environmental Solutions.