Carol Browner is the longest serving administrator in the history of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She received the appointment from President Bill Clinton in January 1993, and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. During her tenure, she partnered with business leaders, community advocates, and all levels of government heads to promote common sense, cost-effective solutions to the nation's most pressing environmental and public health challenges. She successfully built broad bi-partisan support in Congress to pass two pivotal modern environmental laws - the landmark Food Quality Protection Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Browner knows environmental regulation both from the Washington and state perspective. From 1991 to 1993, Browner was Secretary of Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation, one of the nation's largest state environmental agencies. She won praise for dealing effectively with difficult issues involving wetland protection, hazardous waste disposal, and Everglades cleanup.

From 1986 to 1988, Browner worked in Washington for then-Senator Lawton Chiles, the late Governor of Florida. She also served as Legislative Director for then-Senator Al Gore.

Browner grew up in south Florida, where the Everglades were a bike ride away. Her parents, college professors at Miami-Dade Community College, gave the future EPA Administrator her first lessons in politics and an appreciation for the natural world. Browner graduated from the University of Florida in 1977 and then earned a degree from its law school. She served as General Counsel for the Florida House of Representatives Government Operations Committee in 1980. She then worked for Citizen Action, a grassroots consumer group in Washington, D.C.

Browner's career in public service spans more than two decades and she has received numerous honors and distinctions, including the prestigious President's Award from the American Lung Association, Glamour Magazine's Woman of the Year Award, and the Audubon Society's Guy M. Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award. Currently, she is a principal of the Albright Group, a global strategy firm that assists clients in forging relationships with governments, businesses and organizations.