Biographical profile

Anda A. Ray

Senior Vice President, Office of Environment and Research and Environmental Executive

Anda Ray is the Senior Vice President of the Office of Environment and Research serves as the agency’s Environmental Executive, responsible for development of agency environmental policy and strategy. In this role she directs TVA’s environmental and stewardship activities, as well as its science and technology initiatives. These responsibilities include corporate environmental regulatory outlook, operational performance and TVA’s renewable & clean energy strategies.

Ray also oversees TVA’s research and development activities, the management of TVA’s 293,000 acres of public lands, and environmental and realty services provided to TVA organizations in support of power generation, energy transmission, and economic development. And recently led the development of TVA’s Strategic Plan and its Environmental Policy.

Immediately before being named to her current position, she served as Vice President of Environmental Stewardship & Policy. Previous positions held include the Vice President of Performance Initiatives, with responsibilities for executive oversight and alignment of TVA’s performance-management processes, and before that as Director of TVA’s Public Power Institute, which focused on new energy technologies, including the first wind farm in the Southeast United States and TVA’s renewable energy program, Green Power Switch ™, another first in the Southeast.

She participated in a national Biomass Advisory Committee, chaired by the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture, and helped draft the Roadmap for Biomass Technologies in the United States.

Ray previously managed various organizations at TVA, whose functions ranged from generation and transmission technology development to new product development. These positions included responsibility for several large projects, such as the installation of a distributed control system at a fossil plant and an integrated controls system on two nuclear units.

Ray began her career with TVA in the nuclear power organization and co-authored an industry standard for emergency preparedness that was sponsored by the National Nuclear Management and Resources Council. She has served on the Board of Directors of an energy services company, a solid oxide fuel cell manufacturer, and an energy-storage developer, as well as on an Editorial Board for a journal on applied research and public policy.

Before coming to TVA in 1983, Ray conducted research with AT&T in fiber-optic communications.

Ray earned a B.S. degree in nuclear physics from Auburn University and a master’s in solid state physics from Emory University.