Michel Sacotte is the Vice President for Standardization & Prescriptions for Transformers at Schneider Electric. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Metz. Since 1975, his responsibilities have included Chief Engineer of the Technical Department, R&D Manager, Technical & Quality Manager, and Technical/Purchasing/Quality Manager/Indus-trial in France Transformers for 11 years, and R&D Vice President at Schneider Electric’s Transformers Line of Business for 7 years. He has acted as Working Group convener of several IEC and Cenelec standards for distribution transformers (dry type, self-protected filled transformers, wind turbine application, energy efficiency, etc.). He has been a major contributor to the IEC Standardization work surrounding the domain of transformers. He was Chairman of the French National Committee for UTE and Manufacturers (Gimélec) for transformers. Michel is Chairman of T&D Europe for transformers activity. He has filed nu-merous patents covering various aspects of distribution transformers.