Carol M. Browner

Carol M. Browner is a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm.
 
Ms. Browner provides strategic counsel to clients in the areas of environmental protection, energy conservation, and climate change. She positions clients in many sectors to succeed in enhancing corporate responsibility, gaining market access, identifying political and regulatory risks, and developing strategic partnerships and business relationships.

Ms. Browner currently serves on the board of several non-profit organizations including as Chair of the National Audubon Society, one of the country’s oldest environmental organizations and as a member of the Boards of the Directors of the Center for American Progress.

Ms. Browner served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1993 to 2001 as a member of the President’s Cabinet.  She is the longest serving administrator in EPA’s history.

As Administrator of the EPA, Ms. Browner built unique partnerships with business leaders, community advocates, and all levels of government.  She also developed common-sense, cost-effective solutions to our nation’s most pressing environmental and public health challenges.

Accomplishments during Ms. Browner’s tenure at EPA included the development of the successful Brownfields program to clean up and redevelop abandoned, contaminated urban properties which leveraged more than $1 billion in public and private funds; the forging of broad bipartisan support to pass the landmark Food Quality Protection Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act; the promotion and implementation of the strongest-ever federal clean air standards; the completion of more than three times the number of Superfund clean-ups in her eight years than in all the previous history of the program; and the creation of the first EPA Office of Children’s Health Protection, the Office of Environmental Information, and the Office of Reinvention.

Ms. Browner has represented the United States in numerous international negotiations, including serving as the chair of the NAFTA US-Canada-Mexico Commission on Environmental Cooperation and host and chair of the 1998 G-8 Environment Ministers’ Meeting.

From 1991 to 1993, Ms. Browner served as Secretary of Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation, one of the nation's largest state environmental agencies.  From 1988 to 1991, she served as Legislative Director for then Senator Al Gore.  From 1986 to 1988, Ms. Browner worked in Washington for then Senator Lawton Chiles, the late Governor of Florida.

Ms. Browner earned both a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Florida.