Paul F. Barber

Paul F. Barber is a senior executive with extensive technical knowledge and leadership experience in the electric power industry. He is currently the principal of Barber Energy and serves on the Industry Advisory Board of the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions. Mr. Barber served on the Executive Committee of the Northeast Power Coordinating Council and held senior executive positions with Edison Mission Marketing and Trading and Citizens Power and its predecessors. He was a career officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including service for 12 years on the electrical engineering faculty of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has held numerous leadership positions for NERC and several regional reliability councils (ERCOT, MAAC, NPCC, and WSCC), as well as for other electric industry organizations. He served as facilitator for the NERC Steering Group as it led the investigation of the August 14, 2003, power outage.

Dr. Barber holds degrees from the United States Military Academy, BS (1965); University of Illinois, MS in Civil Engineering (1974), and MS in Electrical Engineering (1974); and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, PhD in Electric Power Engineering (1988). He has been a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers since 1972.