CIGRE Next Generation Network (NGN)
As a young professional under 35 (or with less than 10 years career experience), the NGN represents your gateway into the multifaceted world of CIGRE.
You’ll find the connections, knowledge, and confidence you need to advance your career, with the opportunity to learn from experts and discuss real-world challenges with industry leaders.
Network with like-minded professionals, share papers, or collaborate on technical innovations. You could even develop into one of tomorrow’s industry leaders with smart, creative, or even disruptive ideas… because the Grid needs new approaches!
You’ll get half price membership for 3 years, plus a world of benefits such as participation in groups to solve your local issues, access to a million pages of technical information, and discounted rates on the Paris Session.
The purpose of NGN
The NGN seeks to facilitate successful transition into the power systems industry for young professionals and students – by providing technical resources and relationship connections to foster technical and career development. The Network aims to ensure that the interests of new members are represented in CIGRE, both for their own benefit and for the future sustainability of CIGRE.
Specific goals:
- To encourage active membership of NGN for the mutual benefit of members and NGN.
- To organize and promote networking events, technical visits, tutorials, and meetings.
- To organize appropriate CIGRE NGN networking events.
- To participate in active CIGRE Working Groups (WGs).
- To report to the CIGRE Steering Committee on a regular basis.
- To improve communication between CIGRE and NGN members.
Important linksNGN Forum during the 2022 Paris Session: |
Key contacts:
- Phillip Coughlan - International NGN Chair: phillip.coughlan@gmail.com
- Anthony Giacomoni - International NGN Vice-Chair: giaco013@umn.edu
- Conor Mulholland - International NGN Secretary: Conor.Mulholland@Eirgrid.com
List of National Committees with a Next Generation Network
| National Committee | Name of NGN contact |
|---|---|
| ARGENTINA | Pablo BOGGETTI |
| AUSTRALIA | |
| AUSTRIA | Manuel GALLER |
| BELGIUM | Giacomo BASTIANEL |
| BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | Adnan MUJEZINOVIC |
| BRAZIL | Joyce MEIRELES SIQUEIRA |
| CANADA | Kurtis MARTIN-STURMEY |
| CHINA | Bo LEI |
| COLOMBIA | Pedro LOZADA |
| CROATIA | Ivana DAMJANOVIC |
| DENMARK | Daniela PAGNANI |
| FINLAND | Pauli PARTINEN |
| FRANCE | Alexia VENET-JALADE |
| GEORGIA | Teona ELIZARASHVILI |
| GERMANY | Nikos NITZSCHE |
| GREECE | |
|
GULF COOPERATIVE COUNCIL (GCC) |
Tarige HASSAN |
| HUNGARY | Imre PACSONYI |
| INDIA | Aditie GARG |
| IRAN | Vahid VEYSI |
| IRELAND | Conor MULHOLLAND |
| ITALY | Marco FORTELEONI |
| JAPAN | Yoshihisa NAKASHIMA |
| NETHERLANDS | Harish KRISSHNAPPA |
| NEW ZEALAND | Sanjib MISHRA |
| NORWAY | Babak ABDOLMALEKI |
| PERU | Maycoll MENDOZA |
| POLAND | Pawel WISNIEWSKI |
| ROMANIA | Bogdan LEU |
| RUSSIA | Stanislav EROSHENKO |
| SLOVAKIA | Branislav PILAT |
| SLOVENIA | Ana LOVRENCIC |
| SOUTH AFRICA | |
| SPAIN | Laura CASADO |
| SWEDEN | Philip MATHEW |
| SWITZERLAND | Hannah KIRCHNER |
| TURKEY | Ahmet Kerem KOSEOGLU |
| UNITED KINGDOM | Jianing LI |
| UNITED STATES | James BERGER |
