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Ignacio Perez-arriaga

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Member Since	Apr 22, 2014	CoLab Points (actual) CoLab Points are awarded to all the members who contributed to a winning integrated Proposal, as well as those who contributed to any sub-Proposal it contains.(See more)	0
Country	Spain	CoLab Points (max. potential) The maximum number of CoLab Points this member could receive. This is a measure of how many times the member’s Proposal have been included in other Proposal and how important it is in those Proposal.(See more)	0

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Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga was born in Madrid in 1948. He received the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and the Electrical Engineer degree from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (UPC) in Madrid, Spain. He is Professor of Electrical Engineering at UPC, and founded its Institute for Research in Technology, which he served as Director for 11 years. He has also been Vice Rector for Research at UPC, and currently holds the BP Chair on Sustainable Development. Dr. Pérez-Arriaga served for 5 years as Commissioner at the Spanish Electricity Regulatory Commission (1995-2000) and he has been an Independent Member of the Single Electricity Market Committee of Ireland (2007-2012). Member of the Board of Appeal of the Agency for the Coordination of Energy Regulators (ACER) in the EU. He is also Director of Energy Training at the Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has worked in 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, regulation and restructuring of the power industry, and sustainability of national and global energy models. He has been a consultant for governmental agencies or electric utilities in more than 30 countries. Dr. Pérez-Arriaga is a Member of the Spanish National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE. He has published more than 200 papers and supervised more than 25 doctoral theses on the aforementioned topics. He is a permanent visiting professor at MIT (2008-present), at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), where he teaches a graduate course on power system regulation, engineering and economics. He is a review editor of the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).