Kal Ayoub, Director of the Office of Electric Reliability, brings more than 25 years of industry and regulatory experience in electric transmission and generation engineering, cybersecurity and bulk electric system reliability to the position.
Prior to joining OER as Director, he served as Chairman Willie Phillips’ Critical Infrastructure and Resilience advisor.
Ayoub joined FERC in 2009, and over the years held various positions of increasing responsibility within OER, including electrical engineer, supervisory electrical engineer and Deputy Director of the Division of Cybersecurity. He was instrumental in advancing the Commission’s regulatory initiatives to strengthen cybersecurity and physical security standards, enhance grid resilience and ensure the reliability and security of the bulk electric system.
Before joining FERC, Ayoub gained extensive private sector experience in the electric industry, holding key roles in performance engineering, power plant operations, project management and risk management. Notably, he contributed to establishing reliability and compliance programs in preparation for the nation’s first mandatory reliability standards, which FERC approved in 2007.
Ayoub earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
