Brian Powell

Brian Powell serves as Deputy Insurance Commissioner and Director of the Office of Risk and Resilience and has been with the Alabama Department of Insurance since 2006.

Innovative in its design, the Office of Risk and Resilience actively creates opportunities to help solve issues within the insurance industry in Alabama. By assessing insurance market issues and determining market vulnerabilities, the office is tasked with creating and implementing risk controls to help sustain a healthy insurance market in Alabama.

The Strengthen Alabama Homes program, a nationally recognized grant program, is located within the Office of Risk and Resilience. The program issue grants up to $10,000 to Alabama homeowners to mitigate their homes to the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety’s Fortified Standard, hardening them against severe storms. The Strengthen Alabama Homes Program is a springboard for the Fortified program in the United States and is the model program other states are adopting to lessen the risk of loss and ensure a healthy local insurance market.

Brian currently serves on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Climate and Resiliency Task Force and is a member of the NAIC Modeling Center for Excellence Advisory Council. Brian is Alabama’s representative on Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC), and he is a member of the Alabama Resiliency Council (ARC) recently established by Alabama’s Governor Kay Ivey.

Brian earned undergraduate degrees in political science and business from Troy University, a Master’s Degree in Business (MBA) from Auburn University, and the Certified Public Manager (CPM) designation from the National Certified Public Manager Consortium. Brian is a United States Army Veteran and for the past 35 years, has been in continuous public service roles for the State of Alabama.