Daniel Brown, Vice-Chair of Freemuse, freelance journalist, former senior staff journalist in the English Service of Radio France International (RFI), has been covering cross-cultural and hybrid music since 1995. In this capacity, the Paris-based journalist has been a regular contributor to Songlines, including several cover stories in 2016. For 15 years, Brown produced the award-winning programme World Tracks for RFI. He worked with film director Rex Bloomstein on the feature-length documentary An Independent Mind on censorship and freedom of expression in the world. He is currently collaborating on another documentary on musicians in Paris exile with Dutch film-maker Arjanne Laan. He was also music advisor for the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool which opened its doors in August 2007.