Pedro Robiou is a senior power system engineer with 37 years of international experience in planning and operation of transmission and distribution systems and Electricity Markets. He has completed assignments spanning more than 25 countries in North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern Europe, Central and Southeast Asia, and the South Caucasus. He is currently providing expert advisory to two large USAID-funded projects in Central Asia. Mr. Robiou is the Lead for the design of the Central Asia Regional Electricity Market – CAREM, and he is providing technical advisory to countries in the region to increase the interconnectivity of their transmission systems at 500- and 220-kV in order to restore their synchronized operation with the aim to increase the volume of bilateral power exchanges in the region and to create an open and competitive regional electricity market. As part of the Power the Future Project, Mr. Robiou is also providing expert advisory to the region to address the technical barriers affecting the capability of national power transmission systems and regional distribution networks to accommodate a higher penetration of utility-scale renewable generation.