Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist and author.

He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View From Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Talking Books and Sunday Morning . He has also worked as a business writer at Maclean's and the Financial Post, a feature reporter for The Globe and Mail, and a freelance journalist for other magazines including Saturday Night.

Brown has also published two books, Freewheeling and Man Overboard.

He is married to Globe and Mail film critic Johanna Schneller .