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PES elections
vote for your officers

Begi n n i ng i n August, th e
voting membership of the ieee Power
& energy society (Pes) will have the
opportunity to elect our future leadership. the offices of president-elect,
treasurer, and secretary for 2018-2019
will be decided. the candidates are
presented here with their photos, biographies, and candidate statements.

President-Elect
Christopher E. Root
C h r i s t o p h e r e.
Root has more than
30 years of utility
operations and engineering leadership experience. he
is currently the chief
operating officer for Vermont electric
Power Company, Rutland, Vermont. he
is responsible for the engineering, construction, and operation of the transmission system in the state of Vermont. Previously, he was the senior vice president,
national grid usA. he has held many
leadership roles in transmission and
distribution, engineering, and construction operations for in four northeastern
u.s. states.
he has a B.s. degree in electrical
engineering from northeastern university and an M.eng. degree in electric power engineering from Rensselear
Polytechnic institute. he attended the
Program for Management Development
at the harvard Business school. he is
a registered Professional engineer in
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the states of Massachusetts and Rhode
island. he is a member of the CigRe
u.s. national Committee and a senior
Member of the ieee.
IEEE Accomplishments

Mr. Root is currently the Pes treasurer, finishing his second two-year term.
he has been on the governing Board
since 2007, serving as a member-atlarge and secretary (four years). he is
on the editorial Board of IEEE Power
& Energy Magazine. he has been on
the Long-Range Planning Committee
since 2006 and is the chair of the Pes
Leadership in Power Award Committee. he is also the chair of the governing Board Finance Committee.
he was instrumental in reinvigorating the Boston Pes Chapter, which was
dormant in 2007. he organized the first
Pes Chapter in the state of Vermont in
2014. he was awarded the 2009 Outstanding engineering Award by the
Pes Boston Chapter. he was the chair
of the Local Organizing Committee for
the 2011 Pes esMO Conference and
exposition. he is a senior Member of
the ieee and has been a Member since
1983. he has given many Pes technical
presentations throughout the world on
various utility topics and has co-authored
several technical Pes papers.
Candidate Statement

i am a candidate for Pes presidentelect in 2017 because i believe that the
strength of the utility industry is the
engineers and technical leaders who
work and support this critical infrastructure around the world. i became
active in the leadership of the Pes al-

most ten years ago because i felt that
having a utility executive's experience
in the governing of the society was important. having been a practicing utility engineer and manager of engineers,
it is important to balance the needs
of this group while appreciating and
supporting the important roles of our
academic, consulting, regulatory, and
manufacturing global communities.
i believe that as our industry deals
with a changing grid, Pes can play an
important and relevant role in outlining
emerging issues, publishing new technical breakthroughs, training a new
generation of utility engineers, debating various new technical ideas, and
creating our industry's standards. i ask
for your vote for president-elect so we
can continue this evolution.

Frank C. Lambert
Frank C. Lambert is
a principal research
engineer and the associate director of
the national electric energy testing, Research, and
Applications Center (neetRAC) at the
georgia institute of technology. he has
more than 43 years of experience in
transmission/distribution system design,
construction, operation, maintenance,
automation, and R&D and is responsible
for interfacing with neetRAC's members to develop and conduct research
projects dealing with transmission and
distribution issues.
he was part of neetRAC's management team at its launch in 1996. Previously, he was distribution manager at
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