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meet the candidates
Society elections
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BEGINNING IN AUGUST, ELECtions
will be held for the positions of
IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES)
president-elect, secretary, and treasurer.
The candidates are as follows:
✔ president-elect: Shay Bahramirad,
Lina Bertling Tjernberg,
and Edvina Uzunovic
✔ secretary: Sri Niwas Singh and
Jonathan Sykes
✔ treasurer: Juan Carlos Montero
and Nirmal K.C. Nair.
The successful candidates will serve
for the term of 2022-2023. To learn
more about the candidates before casting
your ballot, read the biographies and
candidate statements that follow. Visit
the PES website (https://www.ieee-pes
.org) for the most up-to-date information.
Candidates for
President-Elect
Shay Bahramirad
Dr. Shay Bahramirad
is the vice president
of Climate
and Resilience at
Quanta Technology
and an adjunct
professor at the Illinois
Institute of Technology. She advises
cities and utilities with operational
risk assessment and developing
mitigation strategies for adapting to
climate change. Her research and teachDigital
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ing are focused on microgrids, elements
of sustainable energy, and smart
grid. She has held several executive
positions in the energy sector, including
vice president of Engineering and
Smart Grid at Com Ed, the electric
utility in Illinois. She is the IEEEPES
vice president of New Initiative
and Outreach, overseeing PES engagement
with policymakers globally
on technical issues, emerging technologies,
Smart Cities, and Smart Village.
She is also an editorial board
member of Electricity Journal and a
contr ibutor to the United Nations
Goal-7, Clean and Affordable Energy.
She holds patents and several graduate
degrees, including a Ph.D. in electrical
engineering from the Illinois Institute
of Technology.
IEEE Activities and
Accomplishments
PES vice president of New Initiatives
and Outreach since 2017:
✔ Established PES Executive Advisory
Council to provide strategic
support directly to the PES
Governing Board
✔ Overseeing IEEE Smart Cities
with six Societies participation
and over 4,000 volunteers
✔ Supporting Smart Village and
enhancing the philanthropy effort
by restructuring, and creating
succession plans
✔ Creating a PES Diversity Taskforce
to increase diversity in all
operational areas
✔ Overseeing the PE Industry
Technical Support Leadership
Committee (ITSLC)
* Managing corporate engagement
programs with several
corporations and regulatory
organizations
* Developing white papers with
the highest number of downloads
among all IEEE PES
technical resources, including
but not limited to, Impact of
IEEE-1547 Standard on Smart
Inverters; Impact of Inverter
Based Generat ion on Bulk
Power System Dynamics and
Short-Circuit Performance; The
Definition and Quantification
of Resilience
✔ Developed media programs to increase
the visibility of PES globally
in the industry and business
audience and position PES as a
thought leader in energy sector
✔ Enhancing PES collaboration
and partnership with the UnitedNations
to achieve sustainable
energy goals.
Dr. Bahramirad is an IEEE Senior
Member and recipient of 2014 IEEE
PES Young Engineer Award.
She has served on numerous conference
organizing committees, publications
boards, technical committees, and
standards working groups including
✔ IEEE-USA board member
✔ Guest editor, IEEE Transactions
on Smart Grid, special issue on
power grid resilience (2015)
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