Ramesh C. Bansal has more than 25 years of diversified experience of scholarship of teaching and learning, accreditation, research, industrial, and academic leadership in several countries. Currently he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Sharjah and extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria. Previously he was Professor and Group Head (Power) in the ECE Department at University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa. Prior to his appointment at UP, he was employed by the University of Queensland, Australia; University of the South Pacific, Fiji; and BITS Pilani, India. Prof. Bansal has significant experience of collaborating with industry and Government organizations. He has made significant contribution to the development and delivery of BS and ME programmes for Utilities. He has extensive experience in the design and delivery of CPD programmes for professional engineers. He has carried out research and consultancy and attracted significant funding from Industry and Government Organisations. Prof. Bansal has published over 400 journal articles, presented papers at conferences, books and chapters in books. He has Google citations of over 20000 and h-index of 67. He has supervised 25 PhD, 5 Post Docs and currently supervising several PhD students. His diversified research interests are in the areas of Renewable Energy (Wind, PV, DG, Micro Grid) and Smart Grid. Professor Bansal is an editor of several highly regarded journals including IEEE Systems Journal, ECPS, SGSE. He is a Fellow and Chartered Engineer IET-UK, Fellow Institution of Engineers (India), Fellow SAIEE, and Senior Member of IEEE-USA.