Tahir Kapetanovic is Head of National Control Centre at Austrian Power Grid AG. He is also Convenor of ENTSO-E Operational Security Network Code, member of the Board of the ENTSO-E CGM Project and vice-chair of the TSC Steering Committee. From 2001 to 2011 he was Director Electricity at the Austrian Energy Regulatory Authority E-Control, where he also chaired a number of European regulators’ groups in charge of electricity network and market. From 2005 to 2011 he was a founding member and chair of the WG Network Operations in the EU TP Smart Grids and chair of WG3 of the EC TF for Smart Grids. From 1992 to 2001 he was on different assignments in the private sector, including development and implementation of CIM-based applications in infocom sector from 1992 to 1996. Before 1992 he spent four years in academia and lectured in power systems control and operations. He has over 25 years of experience in power system modelling and real-time operation. He holds Dipl.-Ing., MSc and PhD in Electric Power Systems from University of Zagreb and Vienna University of Technology and Executive MBA from the Vienna School of Economics and University of Minnesota.
