Prof. Gavin T. L. Brown is a psychometrician and a cross-cultural psychologist of assessment. He researches the assessment of student achievement and learning outcomes. He focuses on the design, format, administration, marking, and feedback of assessment processes. He holds a Ph.D. in Education from The University of Auckland. He has held academic roles since 2005 at the University of Auckland and the Hong Kong Institute of Education (2009–2011). He is an Honorary Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong, an associate professor at Umea University in Sweden, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Before academia, he was a teacher in NZ high schools and as a tutor of EFL for 13 years and 9 years in standardized test development in New Zealand.