Philippe Adam

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ABOUT PHILIPPE ADAM

Philippe was appointed Secretary General of CIGRE in March 2014. Graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Paris, he started his career in EDF (Electricité de France) in 1980 as a research engineer in the field of HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current power transmission) and was involved in the studies and tests of outstanding projects like the Cross Channel MW link and the first multiterminal direct current link between Sardinia, Corsica and Italy. After this pioneering period he managed the team of engineers in charge of HVDC and FACTS (Flexible Alternative Current Transmission Systems) studies of the R&D division of EDF. In this period, his CIGRE membership as a working group expert and then as a working group convener in Study Committee 14, was a genuine support to his professional activities. Then he held several management positions in EDF Generation and Transmission division in the fields of substation engineering, network planning, transmission asset management and international consulting until When RTE Réseau de transport d\'Electricité, the French TSO was created in he was appointed manager of the financial and management control department, in order to install this corporate function and the necessary tools. In 2004 he contributed to the creation of RTE international activities as project director first and then deputy Head of the International relations department. From 2011 to 2014 he has been the Strategy Director of Infrastructures and Technologies of the Medgrid industrial initiative. In the meantime, between 2002 and 2012 he has served CIGRE as the Technical Committee Secretary and as the Secretary and Treasurer of the French National Committee from 2009 till 2014.