Brian Bond named 2005 LSUS Alumnus of the Year
05/18/05

T. Brian Bond, vice president-external affairs for AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company was honored at the 2005 LSUS Distinguished Alumnus of the Year at spring graduation Wednesday evening at the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City.

Bond is a 1981 graduate of LSUS with a Bachelor of General Studies degree, and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree at LSUS. In addition to serving on the board of the LSUS Foundation, he has been instrumental and personally involved in notable projects with the LSUS Red River Watershed Management Institute, include bluebird houses and a bat habitat at the Red River Education and Research Park (C. Bickham Dickson Park). He also serves the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry Environmental Quality Steering Committee and is a volunteer in the Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal elementary school tutoring program.

Bond’s strategic focus at SWEPCO is on community relations, economic development and public policy matters, particularly as they affect AEP’s business in the increasingly competitive electricity industry. He participates in building and maintaining external relationships with regulators, legislators, community leaders, consumers and other stakeholders who have an impact on SWEPCO’s activities in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas.

He was state president-Arkansas/Louisiana for AEP from August 2003 until June 2004, and was environmental affairs manager-Louisiana and manager-waste management & mitigation services for American Electric Power Service Corporation from 2000 until he became state president. Previously he held various environmental management positions with SWEPCO over an 18-year period. He joined the company in 1981.