Thierry Meynard (Fellow, IEEE) graduated from the ENSEEIHT (École Nationale Supérieure D'électrotechnique, D'électronique, D'informatique, D'hydraulique et des Télécommunications), Toulouse, France, in 1985, and received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, in 1988.,In 1988, he was a Doctor in Electrical Engineering with the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, and was then an Invited Researcher with the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada, in 1989. He joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), as a Fulltime Researcher in 1990, and was the Head of the Static Converter Group from 1994 to 2001. From 2010 to 2018, he was an Associate Director with the National Program Three-Dimensional Power Hybrid Integration (3-DPHI). He is currently a Directeur de Recherches with CNRS, Laboratoire Laplace, Toulouse, France, but in parallel he has been also involved in several industry-related activities. From 2000 to 2016, he was a Part-time Consultant with Cirtem. In 2016, he cofounded and became a Scientific Advisor with the company Power Design Technologies that develops PowerForge, the software for designing of two- and multilevel power converters. And in January 2020, the consulting company “EIRL Thierry Meynard” was created to help theoretical knowledge to become industrial products. He is coinventor of several topologies of multilevel converter used by ABB, Alstom, Cirtem, General Electric, Schneider Electric: “Flying capacitor,” “Stacked MultiCell,” “5LANPC,” “AC/AC chopper,” and “xPlexed choppers.” His main research interests are related to the series and parallel multicell converters, magnetic components, and development of design tools for power electronics. (Based on document published on 19 October 2020).