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Organising committee

Xinzhou Dong (co-chair) 

Director of the Power System Research Institute, Tsinghua University, China

Paul Poon (co-chair)

Managing Director, Poon's Engineering Limited, Hong Kong

Siqi Bu (Local academic chair)

Professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 

Qiteng Hong (Tutorial chair)

Professor, University of Strathclyde, UK

Lei Chen

General Manager, Director, China Energy Engineering Group Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute (HK) Co., Ltd

Wilson Kwok

Head of Technical Services, The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd.

Peter Crossley

Professor, University of Manchester, UK 

Campbell Booth

Associate Principal & Executive Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Strathclyde, UK

Rannveig Loken

Head of Team Protection, Statnett SF, Norway

King Hang LAM

Associate Head (MSc Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Xi-Cai ZHAO

Deputy Chief Engineer, NR Electric Co., Ltd., China Mainland 

John Chan

Director - East and West Region, CLP, Hong Kong 

Technical Programme Committee

  • Abraham Varghese, Independent Expert, UK.
  • Adam Dyśko, Reader, University of Strathclyde, UK.
  • Alexander Tsylin, Senior Lead Specialist for Plant Control and Protection System, Orsted, Denmark.
  • Athula Rajapakse, Professor, University of Manitoba, Canada.
  • Ben Marshall, Technology Manager, National HVDC Centre, SSEN-Transmission, UK.
  • Bin Wang, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China.
  • Byju Vasantha Chandran, Ørsted, Denmark.
  • Colin Ray, Director - Colin Ray consulting, CIGRE, UK.
  • Craig McTaggart, Transmission Asset Strategy Manager, SP Energy Networks, UK.
  • Deepa Shaji Kumar, R&D Engineer, PNDC, University of Strathclyde, UK.
  • Divya Natarajan, Senior Electrical Engineer, Amazon Web Services, United States of America.
  • Eko, Prasetyo, Manager of Transmission Unit, PT PLN, Indonesia.
  • Graeme Topham, Corporate Protection Specialist, South Africa.
  • Hugh Borland, Chief Technical Officer, Anseris IQ, Ireland.
  • Jianping Wang, Senior Principal Scientist, Hitachi Energy Research Center, Hitachi Energy, Sweden.
  • Joerg Blumschein, Principal Key Expert Protection, Siemens, Germany.
  • K N Dinesh Babu, Sr. Technical Application Engineer (TAE) - Power System Protection - Grid Automation – UK, GE Vernova, UK.
  • Luc Uyttersprot, Expert, Cigre, Belgium.
  • Meysam, Pashaei, Member of the National Standardization Committee, SESKO Electrotechnical Standardization in Finland.
  • Ramakrishna (Rama) Gokaraju, Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • René Troost, Grid Strategist PAC, Stedin, Netherlands.
  • Tony Yip, Technical Director, Kehui International Ltd., UK.
  • Xiaoru Wang, Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University, China.