Andrew J. Eriksson

Dr. Andrew J. Eriksson has made fundamental contributions to the determination of transmission line lightning reliability and has had a leading role on related IEEE, IEC and CIGRE working groups for lightning studies. Dr. Eriksson's research at South Africa's National Electrical Engineering Laboratories, where he was chief research officer and later, assistant director from 1969-85, helped clarify the parameters and striking processes of the ground flash as an engineering event. He developed equations and experimental data now used worldwide by the electric power industry. Dr. Eriksson is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IEE and the SAIEE. He has published over 40 papers and holds a patent as co-inventor of a lightning warning system. Recently retired after 16 years as a senior executive with global responsibilities in the international ABB Group, he lives in Switzerland and is now an independent director and member of the board of The Performance Group, Oslo, Norway.