A SPECIAL OPENING ADDRESS

 

Ø      Jean KOWAL, the Secretary General of CIGRE

 

Jean KOWAL
graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and the National Institute for Telecommunications . He joined Electricité de France, where his first important position was Head of the Protection and Control Department, in charge of the development of protection and control systems for the National Grid. As Director for Design and Construction of the Transmission Network, he was involved in national and international interconnection projects, such as the  connections of the nuclear plants, the Cross Channel Link with the UK, 400kV lines with Italy and Spain  Vice-President for Transmission and Telecommunications, within the Generation and Transmission Branch, he was in charge of all the technical developments. In 2001 he joined CIGRE as Secretary General, after having been active in CIGRE for more than 20 years, in the fields of Protection and Control and System Operation.

 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

Ø      Prof. Dr. Osman Sevaioðlu

Ø      Academician Loucas Christophorou

Ø      Dr. Evangelos Lekatsas,

Ø      Prof. Dr. Dusan Povh

 

 

OSMAN SEVAIOGLU

has received B.Sc., M.Sc, Ph.D degrees in electrical power engineering from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He worked for Turkish Electricity Authority, Hacettepe University and Middle East Technical University between 1972-2001. He was appointed by Council of Ministers of the Turkish Government to Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) in 2001 as Board Member. He then returned to the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University in 2003 as a professor. He has carried out consultancy services to various government and private institutions on electric transmission and distribution systems, deregulation, electricity markets and tariff structures. In 2002, he is awarded by IEEE as PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer for Outstanding Technical Contributions to the Power Engineering Profession. He is a member of the World Energy Council and Society of the Turkish Electrical Engineering.

 

 

LOUCAS G. CHRISTOPHOROU

received his B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Athens, Greece, and his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the University of Manchester, England. From 1963 to 1994 he was with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory he served as Head of the Atomic, Molecular, and High Voltage Physics Group, and was appointed Corporate Fellow in 1981 and Senior Corporate Fellow in 1991. At the University of Tennessee he has been a Ford Foundation Professor from 1969 to 1997. From 1995 to 2002 he has been with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He has conducted extensive and broad research in atomic, molecular, radiation, chemical, electron, and ion physics and on materials for radiation detectors, pulsed power, gaseous dielectrics, plasma processing, and energy. He is the author /editor of 20 books and the author/co-author of about 400 research papers in these areas. He has introduced the concept of the multicomponent gaseous insulator and founded in 1975 the International Symposia on Gaseous Dielectrics and organized all ten of these meetings over a period of thirty years. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Permanent Member of the Academy of Athens (Greece), and a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (Germany) and the Phoenix Metal (Greece).

 

 

EVANGELOS LEKATSAS

Dr. Evangelos LEKATSAS, born in Athens in 1940, received his diploma in mechanical and electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1964. He received his Ph.D., on Pattern Recognition and Classification Algorithms, from NTUA in 1972. He worked as assistant professor of Electronics and Telecommunications at the NTUA (1967-1987), and with the Greek Navy Research Bureau as consultant (1974-1976). Dr. E. Lekatsas has 35 years of professional experience as Electrical Engineer in PPC. His main activities were studies on overvoltages, short circuits, load flows, feasibility studies and equipment specifications. In 1990 he was appointed Director of the Planning Department and in 1993 he became PPC’s General Manager of Transmission. Since 1994 he participated to PPC’s Committee for the study of the IEM Directive and contributed to the formulation of the Greek Law for the establishment of a competitive electricity market in Greece. Dr. Lekatsas is experienced in issues concerning international interconnections. He studied the DC interconnection between Greece and Italy and participated, for more than 12 years (1974-1986), in the works of the “Coordinating Committee for the Development of the Interconnections of the Electric Systems of the Balkan Countries”. Dr. Lekatsas is member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, and was a member of UNIPEDE/EURELECTRIC, and of CIGRE’s Working Group 13.05 (1974-1982). He is the author of numerous papers and of three books: ‘Microwave Theory’ 1975, ‘Selected Topics on Transmission Systems Theory and Practice’ 1995, and ‘Economic Analysis of Electric Power Systems’ 2000. His third book refers to the economic and technical aspects of the implementation of the IEM Directive for the electricity sector. Since May 2004 he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Transmission System Operator and member of the Greek Council of National Energy Strategy since August 2006.

 

 

DUSAN POVH
Prof. Dr. Dusan POVH received the degree of Electrical Engineering by the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and his doctor degree from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. He is professor at the University of Ljubljana. He was also appointed to Guest-Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He worked for Siemens for many years in different leading positions and is now independent consulting. Main fields of interest are power systems and power electronics. He published in his carrier more than 200 papers. He is Fellow of IEEE and Honorary Member of CIGRE. He received two prestigious awards: Uno Lamm Award for achievements in field of HVDC in 2001, and FACTS Award for his contributions in this technology in 2003.