Juan Manuel Gers

Juan M. Gers obtained his undergraduate degree as Electrical Engineer from the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia in 1977. In 1981, he finished a master's degree in Power Systems Studies at the University of Salford in England, and his doctorte with research in distribution systems and automatization at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland in 1998. He was a professor at the Universidad del Valle in Colombia for more than 20 years and has been working as adjunct instructor at the Gonzaga University for more than 10 years. Dr. Gers served as the Vice Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia in 2002. He is the author of Protection of Electricity Distribution Networks, is a Chartered Engineer of the IET and participates in several groups of the Power System Relaying and Control Committee of the IEEE. Dr. Gers is the founder and president of GERS, an engineering consultancy specializing in power systems, based in Florida, USA.