Xia Liu

Southern Company/Alabama Power

Profile name: Xia Liu

Title: Financial and Corporate Planning Manager

Company/Organization: Alabama Power Company

Address:  600 North 18th Street, Birmingham, AL 35291

Phone:  205-257-7135

Website: www.southernco.com

Favorite Quote: "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."                                Confucius

Accreditations:  CFA Charter Holder

Favorite Awards & Honors:  Senior Leadership Development Program by Duke and Southern Company (2008); Momentum 2007 to 2008; CFO Boot Camp 2004

Education:  MBA, Emory University;  Ph.D course work, Emory University;  MS, BS, Renmin University of China

Family: Husband Jun Zhang; two sons, Leo and Jett

Personal Business Philosophy:  Be as good as you can be.

Advice to women in business: Play the card you are dealt.

Best advice ever received:  Never let anyone else define you.

Strongest inspiration:  The American Dream

Secret to surviving in business:  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.

Being in business has taught me:  We must be bigger than our bottom line.

Secret to dealing with employees:  What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others; be a student of the people; be vulnerable; be truthful.