Marilyn Brown was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, September 10, for a second term on the board of directors for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation’s largest public power provider.

President Obama nominated Brown in 2009 for a term that ended in May 2012. This second term of service will run through May 2017.

Brown is an endowed professor of energy policy in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, where she has established the Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory (www.cepl.gatech.edu), helped establish an Energy Systems minor, and is co-investigator of a National Science Foundation initiative on energy materials and policy.  Previously, she worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she held various leadership positions. She has authored two books and more than 250 publications. Brown’s deep expertise in climate and energy policy helped shape numerous reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including one that led to the organization receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Brown helped to launch and chaired the board of directors of the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance. She served on the boards of directors of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Alliance to Save Energy and was a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy for many years. She has served on six National Academy committees related to energy and environmental issues.

The TVA generates electricity for business customers and local power distributors serving nine million people in parts of seven southeastern states.