Mr. Mark G. Lauby joined NERC in January 2007 as the Manager of Reliability Assessments. Mr. Lauby leads the electric reliability organization’s efforts to independently assess and report on the overall reliability, adequacy, and associated risks of the interconnected North American bulk power system.

Prior to joining NERC, Mr. Lauby worked since 1987 for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) where he held a number of senior positions, including: Director, Power Delivery & Markets; Managing Director, Asia, EPRI International; and Manager, Power System Engineering in the Power System Planning and Operations Program. Mr. Lauby started his career in the electric industry at the Mid-Continent Area Power Pool (MAPP), in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979. His responsibilities included transmission planning, power system reliability assessment, and probabilistic evaluation.

Mr. Lauby earned both his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1980 and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1989 from the University of Minnesota.

He is the author of over 100 papers on the subjects of power system reliability, expert systems, transmission system planning, and power system numerical analysis techniques. Mr. Lauby Chaired the International Electricity Research Exchange (IERE), is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and served as Chairman of a number of IEEE working groups.