Dr. Ruomei Li

Self-confidence is a positive mental state that stimulates the willpower and potential of an individual. It provides the energy and strength to face various challenges, as well as to empower oneself to be recognized. Many women lack self-confidence for their career development for a variety of reasons. To solve this obstacle, women in engineering need to rely on self-motivation. The growth of women cannot be separated from the advancement of the whole society, and so women in engineering need to be encouraged and given more career opportunities.

Biography:

Dr. Ruomei LI is Secretary General (retired) of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineers (CSEE), Chair of WIP of IEEE PES China, and a member of the Executive Council of World Federation of Engineering Organizations. She is an IEEE senior member and an Invited Research fellow at the Energy Internet Research Institute of Tsinghua University.

Dr. Li work in China electric power research institute (1989~1994, 2000~2004), performing long-term planning, system simulation and analysis, operation control strategy and power electronic technology. During 2004~2013, she has served as secretary-general of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE), promoting domestic and international academic communication and cooperation in the field of power and energy engineering, through various activities including publications and conferences. She is the initiator and organizer of numerous events for women engineers worldwide, including CSEE Women events (2012-2017) and CIGRE Women in Engineering Forum (2014-2018), IEEE PES China WIP Forum (2018-2019). She also led the establishment of a network of female engineers in power and energy industry.

As the main team member, she has won the second prize of energy's science and technology progress award (1991) by the Ministry of Energy, and the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2008). She became an honorary member of CIGRE in 2014, and received the 2019 IEEE PES “Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power” award.