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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