Dr. Fiaz Ahmad Chaudhry
| Fiaz is an Electrical Engineer with over 34 years of experience in senior management roles, power system planning, secure power system operation, project management and teaching.
Fiaz’s areas of expertise include corporate management, management consulting, energy policy, regulation, compliance and monitoring, restructuring of electric utilities, power system planning, technical and operational studies, functional and technical specifications of electric facilities (including FACTS/HVDC), program and project management, institutional capacity building and providing smart-grid solutions. He has led different sized teams to develop transmission system expansion, integration, operation and investment plans for countries, regions, utilities, transmission owners (TOs), independent system and market operators (ISOs and IMOs) and independent power producers (IPPs) — worth billions of dollars. Fiaz is experienced in working with consultants, utility boards, government and International Funding Agencies to develop and implement long-term power infrastructure projects. Throughout his professional career, he has managed or participated in hundreds of small and large-scale transmission integration and technology application projects around the world, including in Canada, USA, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Tajikistan, Uganda and Pakistan. |
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Employment Record
| Designation | Organization |
| Professor of Practice, Director LUMS Energy Institute, Werner-Von Siemens Chair | LUMS |
| Managing Director | NTDCL |
| Manager, Power System Planning | Hatch Ltd. |
| Supervising Engineer, Transmission Planning and Studies | Hatch Ltd. |
| Head Engineer, Generation Planning, Systems Planning Department | SCECO-East |
| Deputy Director, Primary Transmission, Planning (Power) | WAPDA |
Academic
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| PhD Electrical Engineering | Purdue University
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| MSc Electrical Engineering | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| BSc Electrical Engineering | UET Lahore |
Research/Services Domain: Energy System/ Transmission and Dispatch Planning
Title of Talk: Planning of the Energy System and the Improvement of Pakistan’s Energy System linked to the Transmission and Dispatch System
Abstract: Pakistan has been serving from energy crisis in its recent past. The transmission and distribution system of the entire country is primitive and obsolete and is incapable of dealing with the energy demands. This presentation will elaborate the planning of the Power System keeping in view the current constraints and developing the forward strategy.
