 Born in Ashford, Kent, the son of the ITN newscaster Antony Brown, Ben Brown was educated at the Sutton Valence School, an independent school.During high school, Brown was on the debate team, and took second place in the national debating championships.He won an Open Scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, before graduating from the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies with a diploma with distinction.