For contributions to improving the reliability of insulators in icing and pollution conditions

Igor Gutman received his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree (both in High Voltage Engineering) from State Polytechnic University, Leningrad, Russia in 1981 and 1989, respectively. He has over 40 years of professional experience in electrical power engineering, starting at HVDC Research Institute Leningrad, Russia. He also worked in PPEIU, Russia, as Lecturer and Docent since 1992 and as a consultant with marketing functions for the manufacturer “Composite Insulator”,Russia. In 1994-2017 he worked for STRI (Sweden), being a Senior Expert in Insulation and Manager Insulation. His main field of work has been optimal selection, dimensioning and maintenance of outdoor insulation intended to operate in clean and polluted (iced) environments; ageing characteristics of composite insulators and accelerated ageing tests for composite insulators and diagnostic techniques for outdoor insulation. Since October 2017 he works for Independent Insulation Group in Sweden.

He has published more than 280 conference and magazine technical papers. He is a Distinguished Member of CIGRE, member of Swedish IEC TC 36 “Insulators”, Senior Member of IEEE and has served as a Convener and member of several CIGRE WG in SC A3, B2, C4 and D1. He is a Convener of IEC NW 63414: “Artificial pollution tests on high-voltage insulators made of hydrophobicity transfer materials to be used on a.c. and d.c. systems”.