Philippe Adam, CIGRE – was appointed Secretary General of CIGRE in March 2014. He started his career in EDF in 1980 as a research engineer in the field of HVDC and was involved in pioneering HVDC projects. Later he managed the group in charge of HVDC and FACTS studies of the R&D of EDF. 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 2000.
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.
Between 2002 and 2012 he has also served CIGRE as the Technical Committee Secretary and as the Secretary of the French National Committee from 2009 till 2014.