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IEEE STAFF AWARD
2021 IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award
Sponsored by IEEE
David Bankowski
For leading the restructuring of the IEEE Data Center and ensuring its resilience and
continuity of services for over two decades
During his 32 years of service, David Bankowski has provided
leadership and support of critical IT infrastructure and operational
services for IEEE. He led efforts to build the IEEE Data
Center in 2001 and spent the last 2 decades focusing on providing
the infrastructure necessary to ensure IT services were reliable
and highly available to members and customers. He worked
closely with the business to understand and deliver on their IT
operational needs while concentrating on managing IT costs.
His efforts to establish and maintain IEEE's disaster recovery program
led to the reduction of service disruptions to IEEE's critical
customer facing services. The work he did with his team to
organize IT's preparedness helped IEEE get through the recent
COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of Superstorm Sandy in
2012. His leadership has also provided guidance for the initial
expansion of on-premise services into the cloud.
Bankowski retired from IEEE in May 2021 as senior director of
IT Operations and currently resides in Las Vegas, NV, USA.
IEEE AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ETHICAL PRACTICES
2021 IEEE Award for Distinguished Ethical Practices
Sponsored by the IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee
William F. Hederman
For sustained leadership in addressing ethical issues related to energy technologies
and public policy
William F. Hederman is an adjunct professor at the CSIS-Maxwell
School joint program for International Relations in Washington,
DC, USA. He is also executive vice president for external affairs
for QCoefficient, Inc., a firm specializing in building-grid integration.
He was a direct-report senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of Energy
Ernest Moniz, serving as chief architect of the groundbreaking
Quadrennial Energy Review's analytic framework and lead analyst
on the in-country team sent to Ukraine in 2014-15 at President
Poroshenko's request, as well as on missions to the Baltics and Germany.
Earlier government service included establishing the U.S.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) Office of Market
Oversight and Investigations during the Enron/California electricity
crises and being the first energy budget analyst at the U.S.
Congressional Budget Office. Other assignments included executive
director, chief operating officer, and board member of the International
Energy Agency's International Centre for Gas Technology
Information and vice president at Columbia Energy Group.
Hederman began his engineering career at Bell Telephone Laboratories
and his policy career at the RAND Corporation. He has
been designated an Exemplar of Public Service by the chairman of
FERC and received a distinguished service award from the secretary
of energy. He serves on the nonprofi t boards of Engineers-onDeck
and the College Robotic Football Conference. He earned
degrees from MIT, Notre Dame, and Cal-Berkeley. He has taught/
lectured at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,
Notre Dame, University of Virginia Law School, Penn Law, Stanford,
Harvard Kennedy School, MIT, University of Michigan, the
National Defense University, and several other universities.
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