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The IEEE/PES at Both the International and the National Levels and the Electrical Engineering Department, The Petroleum Institute, Celebrate the 125th Anniversary at the PI, October 28-29, 2009
Speaker Bios
 Mrs. Wanda Reder, President IEEE/PES
Vice President Power Systems Services S&C Electric Comp, USA
Wanda Reder, is currently the President of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and the Vice President of the Power Systems Services Division at S&C Electric Company offering engineering, field service, and project management capabilities to utilities, developers and industrial customers. Prior to S&C, Wanda was the Vice President of T&D Asset Management at Exelon where she had responsibility for asset investment strategy, standards, engineering, planning, reliability and work management in Chicago and Philadelphia. Prior to Exelon, Wanda was the Vice President of Energy at Davies Consulting.
Wanda has been instrumental in leading S&C into the Wind energy market. She capitalized on S&C’s expertise in contract development, substation and collector engineering and design, relaying, protection and coordination, SCADA, VAR management, and S&C’s world class consulting and analytical services. Under Wanda’s leadership, S&C now consults with the largest wind developers in the world; S&C has constructed the largest wind farm in Canada, and several wind generation facilities in the U.S.
 Dr. Saifur Rahman, Vice President IEEE/PES
Joseph R. Loring Professor & Director, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, USA
Saifur Rahman is the director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech where he is the Joseph Loring Professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment at the University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee. Professor Rahman has served as a program director in engineering at the US National Science Foundation between 1996 and 1999. In 2009 he is serving as the vice president for New Intiatives and Outreach for the IEEE Power & Energy Society and a member of its governing board. In 2006 he served as the vice president of the IEEE Publications Board, and a member of the IEEE Board of Governors. Prior to that, he served as the vice president for Publications and Education & Industry Relations for the IEEE Power & Energy Society for five years. He is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE and in that capacity he has spoken on renewable energy, electric power system planning, intelligent power grid, environment and critical infrastructure protection related topics in over 20 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and North America. He has published over 300 papers in the areas of his technical interest. He is the inaugural editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.
 Mr. John D, McDonald, P.E., IEEE Division VII Director, Past President IEEE/PES
General Manager, Marketing, General Electric (GE) Energy T&D, USA
John D. McDonald, P.E., is GM, Marketing for GE Energy T&D in Atlanta, Georgia. John has 35 years of experience in the electric utility transmission and distribution industry. John received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. (Power Engineering) degrees from Purdue University, and an M.B.A. (Finance) degree from the University of California-Berkeley. John is a member of Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary) and Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary), is a Fellow of IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering Award in 2002, the IEEE PES Substations Committee Distinguished Service Award in 2003, and the 2009 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. John is Past President of the IEEE PES, CIGRE US National Committee (USNC) VP Technical Activities, Past Chair of the IEEE PES Substations Committee, IEEE Division VII Director, and is a registered Professional Engineer (Electrical) in California, Pennsylvania and Georgia. John teaches a course on Modern Energy Management Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a course on Smart Grid for GE Energy, and has published thirty-one articles and papers and co-authored three books, including Electric Power Substations Engineering, Second Edition, published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press in 2007. John is a member of DOE’s Smart Grid Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC), a member of NEMA’s Smart Grid Task Force, and on the Board of Directors of the GridWise Alliance.
 Mrs. Meliha B. Selak, P.E., Vice President IEEE/PES
BC Hydro, Transmission Engineering, Protection& Control Planning Applications, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Meliha B. Selak is a Specialist Engineer in Electrical Power Systems with BC Hydro. She has an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Sarajevo and has over 30 years of experience in various aspects of power systems engineering including utility protection, research & development, project management and consulting on international projects. Prior to joining BC Hydro in 2000, she worked as a research engineer in the Power System Group at the University of British Columbia on Real-Time Power System Simulator in connection with EMTP. Her technical activities include power system protection and control applications, power system analysis, evaluations and interconnection studies for the various plants connecting to the power system, as well as development of the protection guidelines.
She is a registered professional engineer in the Province of British Columbia and is a senior member of IEEE. In 2009 she is serving as the vice president for Chapters for the IEEE Power & Energy Society and a member of its governing board. Also, she is a member of the IEEE Power System Relay Committee (PSRC). She has written numerous documents and technical papers associated on the power system subjects and also a paper reviewer.
 Dr. Noel N. Schulz, Treasurer, President-Elect Candidate for 2010-11, IEEE/PES
Paslay Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Kansas State University, USA
Noel Schulz is Paslay Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Kansas State University, Kansas, USA. Dr. Schulz received her B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA in 1988 and 1990, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in EE from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in 1995. Become joining K-State, She spent eight years at Mississippi State University where she was the TVA Endowed Professor in Power Systems Engineering. She also has teaching experience at Michigan Technological University, University of North Dakota and Virginia Tech. Her research interests are in the computer applications in power systems including power system operations, shipboard power systems and intelligent system applications. She is active in the IEEE Power & Energy Society serving as Secretary from 2004-2007, Treasurer from 2008-2009 and President-Elect candidate for 2010-2011. Dr. Schulz is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Society of Women Engineers and the National Society of Black Engineers.
 Mrs. Cheryl (Cheri) A. Warren, Secretary IEEE/PES
Vice President Designate - Asset Strategy and Investment Planning &
Chief of Staff of the CEO, National Grid, London, UK
Cheryl (Cheri) A. Warren received her B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Union College in Schenectady, NY. She is the designate vice president of Asset Strategy and Investment Planning at National Grid and she is currently in London working in the capacity of the Chief Of Staff the CEO of National Grid. In this role she not only attends to the need of the Chief Executive, but also gets to review new technologies such as smart grid, CCS, energy efficiency, and climate change technologies. Prior to joining National Grid she was a consultant first with PTI and then with Navigant Consulting where she provided guidance on many issues including electric reliability, asset management, GIS systems integration and power quality issues to name a few. She even spent a summer firing rockets to attract lightning!
She is Secretary of the IEEE PES. She serves and has served in various roles in IEEE PES including Chair, Working Group on Reliability, Chair, Distribution Subcommittee and Chair, PES Awards Committee. She received the Excellence in Power Distribution Award at the General Meeting in June 2007 for her contributions to electric reliability.
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