René Troost ([email protected]) graduated as an electrical engineer and started his career in telecommunications. In 2014, he joined Stedin. With extensive experience and expertise in the protection, automation and control domain, Troost is currently responsible for substation automation policy and an active member of the Dutch Committee of the IEC TC57 (NEC57) and the CIGRE Technical Committee 57 WG10, which deals with power system intelligent electronic devices, communication and associated data models.