Vice-President Technical
Marcio Szechtman is presently the Director General of CEPEL, the Brazilian National Power Research Institute. He acted as the CIGRE Study Committee B4 Chair from 2002 to 2008 and is the current Technical Council Chair of CIGRE.
He started his affiliation with CIGRE back in 1982.He received the following  CIGRE and IEEE awards: the  CIGRE Medal in 2014; the Life Fellow degree from IEEE/PES in 2018; the Uno Lamm HVDC IEEE/PES Award in 2009; The Honorary Member of CIGRE, in 2008.
His main technical activities have been dedicated to the area of HVDC and Power Electronics, since the 1970’s.