Komla A Folly received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Hiroshima University, Japan in 1997. From 1997 to 2000, he worked at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. In 2009, he received a Fulbright Scholarship and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Missouri, USA. His research interests include power system stability, control and optimization, HVDC modeling, grid integration of renewable energy, application of computational intelligence to power systems, smart grid, and power system resilience. He is a Fellow of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE), a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ).