Biographical profile

Anda A. Ray

Senior Vice President, Environment & Technology, and Sustainability Officer

Anda Ray is the senior vice president of Environment & Technology and serves as the agency’s environmental executive and sustainability officer. She is responsible for directing TVA’s environmental strategies, including renewable and clean energy, as well as leading environmental regulatory outlook and permitting activities.

TVA is focused on cleaner energy technologies and environmentally sustainable practices and as the environmental executive; Ray also oversees TVA’s technology innovation activities, management of TVA’s public lands, land transactions, and technical environmental resources. She led the development of TVA’s strategic plan and its environmental policy and also served as TVA’s Kingston ash spill recovery executive.

Ray began her career at TVA in the nuclear power organization. Since then, she has managed various organizations across the agency, ranging from power supply planning to new product development. In these roles, she was responsible for several large technology advancement projects, including the installation of a distributed control system at a fossil plant and an integrated controls system on two nuclear units, a microturbine, and fuel cell prototypes.

She has held several executive-level positions, including vice president of Performance Initiatives, which included responsibilities for oversight and alignment of TVA’s performance management processes. Before that, she served as director of TVA’s Public Power Institute, where she oversaw the launch of Green Power Switch™, the first green power premium program in the southeast, and led construction of the first wind farm in the southeast United States.

Ray is nationally recognized for her knowledge of energy and utility operations and environmental issues and has appeared in national media outlets including National Public Radio, World Business Review (with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger) and 60 minutes. She has also worked at the national level with the secretaries of Energy and Agriculture to develop a National Biomass Roadmap.

Her experience also includes service on several boards of directors and oversight councils, including energy services and energy storage companies, a fuel cell developer, an economic development foundation, and an editorial board for an applied research and public policy journal. Ray also co-authored an industry standard for nuclear emergency preparedness that was sponsored by the National Nuclear Management & Resources Council.

Before joining TVA in 1983, Ray conducted research with AT&T in fiber-optic communications technologies and taught university-level physics.

Ray holds a bachelor’s degree in nuclear physics from Auburn University and a master’s degree in solid state physics from Emory University.