Marilyn A. Brown is an American

United States

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 geographer

Geographer

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 on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology

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. She is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy and the Tennessee Valley Authority

Tennessee Valley Authority

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 board. She previously worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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, where she held several leadership positions.

Brown has published widely in the field of energy policy

Energy policy

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 and technology forecasting

Technology forecasting

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. Brown has assisted U.S. House of Representatives and U. S. Senate hearings as an expert witness. She sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals and associations such as the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance, the Alliance to Save Energy and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

Publications

In 2007 Brown co-edited Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths with Benjamin K. Sovacool

Benjamin K. Sovacool

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. She has also authored or co-authored the following books and reports:

• Towards a climate-friendly built environment (2005)
• Energy and environmental policy (2002)
• Scenarios for a clean energy future (2001)
• Persistence research of DSM impacts: methods, applications, and selected findings (1996)
• Summary of California DSM impact evaluation studies (1994)
• Weatherization works: final report of the national weatherization evaluation (1994)
• National impacts of the weatherization assistance program in single-family and small multifamily dwellings (1993)
• The Impact of Bonneville's model conservation standards on the energy efficiency of new home construction (1991)
• Energy efficiency in nonprofit agencies (1990)
• Commercializing government-sponsored innovations (1989)
• Technology transfer strategies of the U.S. Department of Energy's Conservation program (1988)
• Impact of the Hood River Conservation Project on electricity use for residential water heating (1987)
• Effective questions to strengthen thinking (1986)
• Residential energy conservation bibliography (1983)

Qualifications

In 1971, Brown received her bachelor of arts from Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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 and 1973, her master’s from the University of Massachusetts

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. In 1977, she obtained her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.