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January 2012
Donald Heirman is president of Don HEIRMAN Consultants which is a
training, standards, and educational electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
consultation corporation. Previously he was with Bell Laboratories
for over 30 years in many EMC roles including Manager of Lucent
Technologies (Bell Labs) Global Product Compliance Laboratory, which he
founded, and where he was in charge of the Corporation’s major EMC and
regulatory test facility and its participation in ANSI accredited
standards and international EMC standardization committees. He
chairs, or is a principal technical contributor to, US and international
EMC standards organizations including ANSI ASC C63® (immediate past
chairman), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and
the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) International
Special Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR). He was named chairman
of CISPR in October 2007 moving from his previous role as its
subcommittee A chairman responsible for all CISPR 16 basic standards
(EMC methods of measurement, test instrumentation and statistical
techniques including measurement uncertainty). He is a member of
the IEC’s Advisory Committee on EMC (ACEC) and the Technical Management
Committee of the US National Committee of the IEC. In November
2008 he was presented with the prestigious IEC Lord Kelvin award at the
IEC General Meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is the highest award in
the IEC and recognizes Don’s many contributions to global
electrotechnical standardization in the field of EMC. He is a life
Fellow of the IEEE and an honored life member of the IEEE EMC Society (EMCS)
and member of its Board of Directors, chair of its technical committees
on EMC measurements and Smart Grid, vice president for standards, past
EMCS president, and past chair of its standards development committee.
He is also past president of the National Cooperation for Laboratory
Accreditation (NACLA). He is also past president of the IEEE Standards
Association (SA), past member of the SA Board of Governors and past
member of the IEEE’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He is
also the Associate Director for Wireless EMC at the University of
Oklahoma Center for the Study of Wireless EMC. He has presented
numerous workshops, tutorials, and technical papers internationally and
is listed in several Who’s Who publications. He is a retired
Commander in the US Navy

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