Dr. Marilyn Brown is a Regents Professor in the Carter School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a joint faculty member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her research focuses on the design and impact of policies aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of cleans energy technologies. Brown has led several energy technology and policy scenario studies and is a national leader in the analysis and interpretation of energy futures. Her 6 books include Climate Change and Global Energy Security (MIT Press), and she has written more than 250 journal articles.

She contributed to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Her work has had significant visibility in the policy arena as evidenced by her briefings and testimonies before state and local legislative and regulatory bodies, Committees of both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and international organizations. She has served on 10 National Academies committees and was a Presidential appointee and two-term regulator of the Tennessee Valley Authority (2010-2017). In 2020 she was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2023 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.