I have spoken at over 200 IEEE events in all ten IEEE regions. My close association with members and volunteers at grassroots level gives me insights. I can easily empathize with academics, young professionals, mid-career industry engineers, and women and under-represented minorities, in particular. This helps me to address your needs by developing appropriate programs to advance your professional development. I pledge to:

Powerfully demonstrate IEEE’s relevance to current and prospective members

• Proactive outreach demonstrating benefits of IEEE membership
• Highlight the unparalleled networking opportunities at over 2000 international IEEE conferences held annually
• Provide access to massive resources for up-skilling and innovative collaboration facilities with like-minded colleagues worldwide that IEEE makes available

Recognize the contributions our volunteers make for our publications and standards

• Reviewers of IEEE journal papers will earn points which they can redeem to download published papers
• Volunteers who contribute to guides and standards development can have access to these documents for their own use

Make IEEE stronger, more relevant, more global and more assertive

• Provide broader member benefits and ensure financial transparency and stability
• Promote new and innovative products and services for IEEE members
• Deliver closer ties with industry and grow industry membership
• Ascend geographical and political barriers to allow equal volunteer participation in IEEE
• Better recognize contributions of female and under-represented minority members
• Advance IEEE as a leader for addressing global challenges like Sustainable Development by working closely with other global technical professional societies

Together we will make IEEE a more successful and resilient global technical organization