Dr. Prabha Kundur short bio
Dr. Prabha S. Kundur
President, Kundur Power Systems Solutions Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prabha Kundur holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and has over 40 years of experience in the electric power industry.
He is currently the President of Kundur Power system Solutions Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He served as the President and CEO of Powertech Labs Inc. ,
the research and technology subsidiary of BC Hydro, from 1994 to 2006. Prior to joining Powertech, he worked at Ontario Hydro for 25 years and held
senior positions involving power system planning and design.
He has also served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto since 1979 and at the University of British Columbia from1994 to 2006.
He is the author of the book Power System Stability and Control (McGraw-Hill, 1994), which is a standard modern reference for the subject.
He has performed extensive international consulting related to power system planning and design, and has delivered technical courses for utilities, manufacturers and universities around the world.
Dr. Kundur has a long record of service and leadership in the IEEE. He has chaired numerous committees and working groups of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES), and was elected
a Fellow of the IEEE in 1985. He is the past-chairman of the IEEE Power System Dynamic Performance Committee. From 2005 to 2010 he served as a member of the IEEE PES Executive Committee and as the
PES Vice-President for Education.
He is the recipient of several IEEE awards, including the 1997 IEEE Nikola Tesla Award, the 2005 IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award,
and the 2010 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering.
Dr. Kundur has also been active in CIGRE for many years. He served as the Chairman of the CIGRE Study Committee C4 on “System Technical Performance” from 2002 to 2006, and as a member
of the CIGRE Administrative Council from 2006 to 2010. He is the recipient of the CIGRE Technical Committee Award in 1999. He was bestowed by CIGRE title of Honorary Member in 2006.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2003 and as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2011. He has been awarded two honorary
degrees: Doctor Honoris Causa by the University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania in 2003, and Doctor of Engineering, Honoris Causa by the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2004.