Ahmed Boubakeur was born in Biskra, Algeria in 1952. He received in 1975 the degree of Engineer in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique (ENP) of Algiers, and in 1979 he obtained the Doctorate in Technical Sciences from the Institute of High Voltage Engineering of the Technical University of Warsaw in Poland. He is currently a professor at ENP of Algiers where he is giving lectures and supervising research in the field of High Voltage Engineering since 1982. His principal research areas are discharge phenomena, insulators pollution, lightning, polymeric cables insulation, transformer oil ageing, neural network and fuzzy logic application in HV insulation diagnosis, and electric field calculation and measurement. He is an IEEE senior member, member of the Algerian HV Power Systems Association ARELEC (National Algerian Committee of CIGRE).