Peter Bishop is presently Principal Protection & Automation Engineer with Transpower NZ Ltd, the transmission utility in New Zealand. He holds an Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree from the University of Canterbury (NZ) and is a Chartered Professional Engineer. He has over twenty-five years’ of experience in power system protection engineering support and management for a transmission utility and protection manufacturer. This experience includes protection operation and application analysis, setting studies, simulation and testing, training, investigations, and project support. He was a member of a cross functional team which travelled internationally gathering experience and information on substation automation for future application for Transpower. In recent years at Transpower, Peter has managed the protection technical support response for power system faults, equipment failures and outages. Peter is the convener of CIGRE Australia B5 mirror panel and has been a cospecial reporter at the 2017 SC B5 colloquium.Nirmal-Kumar C. Nair received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, USA. He has held several professional and research positions in India, USA and New Zealand (NZ). Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer Engineering and Software Engineering at University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interest includes voltage collapse, resilience, cyber-physical security and special protection schemes. He has contributed to over 270 conference and journal papers, two books and several book chapters. He has been serving as an Executive of CIGRE New Zealand National Committee since 2008, and is also the Technical Chair and Event Manager currently. For CIGRE B5, Nirmal-Kumar is a technical advisor for New Network Requirements, and has been involved in 4 working groups and 2 task forces, along with several papers. He was recognized in 2018 as a CIGRE Distinguished Member.
