Prof. Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga
Professor
and Director of the BP Chair on Sustainable Development, Instituto de
Investigación Tecnológica, Universidad Pontificia
Comillas, Madrid, Spain
Ignacio
J. Pérez-Arriaga was born in Madrid
in 1948. He received the Electrical Engineer degree from Comillas
University, Madrid, Spain, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.
He
is Director of the BP Chair on Sustainable Development and Full Professor of
electrical engineering at Comillas
University, where he was
Founder and Director of the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT,
Institute for Technological Research) for 11 years, and has been Vice-Rector
for Research. For five years he served as Commissioner at the Spanish
Electricity Regulatory Commission. He is life member of the Spanish Royal
Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is member of the European Energy Institute,
a high-level think tank providing academic input into both European Community
and national decision making on energy issues. He is Director of the Training
Program for European Energy Regulators at the Florence School of Regulation
within the European University in Florence.
He is the author of the White Paper on the Spanish electricity sector, which
has been delivered to the Spanish Government in July 2005. He has been
principal researcher in more than 40 projects and he has published more than
100 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings.
He has supervised 20 doctoral theses. He has worked and lectured extensively on
power system dynamic analysis, monitoring and diagnosis of power system devices
and systems, intelligent computer design of industrial systems, planning and
operation of electric generation and networks, and regulatory, economic and
environmental aspects of the energy sector. In this latter topic he has been a
consultant for governments, international institutions, industrial
associations, and utilities in more than 30 countries. His current research
interests are centred on energy regulation, the design of regional electricity
markets and energy sustainability.
Complete Curriculum Vitae: 
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