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INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) SECRETARIAT

The IAEA Secretariat staff is composed of some The previous Director General, Dr. Mohamed 2,560 employees from over 125 countries. The ElBaradei, was appointed in 1997 and served following six offices make up the Secretariat: the until 30 November 2009. Department of Nuclear Sciences and The Director General is elected by the IAEA Application, the Department of Management, the Board of Governors and subsequently approved Department of Nuclear Energy, the Department by the General Conference in renewable four of Technical Cooperation, the Department of year terms. Former Director Generals include Nuclear Safety and Security, and the Department Mohamed ElBaradei (1997-2009), Hans Blix of Safeguards. The Secretariat implements (1981 – 1997), Sigvard Eklund (1961 – 1981), programs and activities approved by the agency's and Sterling Cole (1957 – 1961). policy-making organs, which are headed by the Director General (DG). The Director General is responsible for the appointment, organization, and functioning of The Director General: the Agency’s staff. Four offices report directly to On 25 July 2019, Cornel Feruta was appointed the Director General: Acting Director General of the International  Director General’s Office for Policy (DGOP) Atomic Energy Agency. is responsible for a number of functions that On 22 July 2019, the IAEA announced Director are essential to support the Director General in General Yukiya Amano’s passing. performing his responsibilities. These include

st providing overall policy coordination, external On 18 September 2017, the IAEA’s 61 General relations with Member States and Conference approved the appointment of stakeholders, policy planning and strategy, as Director General Yukiya Amano to a fourth term well as coordinating the activities of the New of office, from 1 December 2017 to 30 York and Geneva offices, which liaise with the November 2021. United Nations and its agencies. On 6 March 2013, the Board of Governors re-  Secretariat of the Policy Making Organs appointed the current Director General Yukiya (PMO): The goal of this division is to ensure Amano by acclamation to a further term of office the efficiency of agency meetings and to for four years, from 1 December 2013 to 30 facilitate the completion of the policy-makers’ November 2017. responsibilities. Director General Amano was first elected by the  Office for Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) IAEA Board of Governors on 2 July 2009. He aims to facilitate the agency’s changes through received the required two-thirds majority and improved management, accountability, and became the fifth Director General of the IAEA. overall program performance. Mr. Amano’s opponents included Mr. Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa and Mr. Luis  Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) works to ensure Echávarri of Spain. By the final round of voting, the legality of the agency’s actions, prepare held in March 2009, Amano and Minty were the legal documents, create a multilateral legal only remaining candidates – and ultimately the approach, and provide advice and legal vote was indecisive. The task of selection then guidance common to the UN system. fell to the IAEA General Conference, however, and this body confirmed Mr. Amano as Director The Director General periodically reports to the General in September 2009, his first term Board of Governors on issues such as the beginning on 1 December 2009. implementation of safeguards agreements in a specific member state.

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Department of Nuclear Sciences and include developing reliable and safe lifetime Application: operations of present reactor systems and fuel cycle facilities; expanding the use of nuclear The Department of Nuclear Sciences and power, particularly for countries currently Application implements the Major Programme without nuclear power, or with only small on Nuclear Techniques for Development and nuclear power programs; developing advanced Environmental Protection. This programme is reactor systems and their fuel cycles for the long composed of the following five divisions: the term; capacity building for energy analysis and Joint Food and Agriculture Organization planning; objective consideration of the role of (FAO)/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in nuclear power for sustainable development; and Food and Agriculture, Human Health, Water developing of nuclear knowledge management, Resources, Protection of the Marine and information and communication. Research and Terrestrial Environment, and Physical and development plays a large part in the department, Chemical Applications. The Department is also particularly in waste technology and nuclear responsible for a nuclear science programme, In reactors. In accordance with the IAEA, the order to implement the programme, the department focuses on the maintenance and Department is advised by the Standing Advisory development of nuclear knowledge for peaceful Group on Nuclear Applications (SAGNA), a purposes. The department also hosts the group appointed by the Director General of the International Nuclear Information System, an IAEA. The Department was created in 2002 by information source for scientific literature the World Summit on Sustainable Development pertaining to the development of peaceful in Johannesburg, South Africa. The department nuclear uses. The department is headed by Mr. is headed by Mr. Aldo Malavasi. Mikhail Chudakov.

Department of Management: Department of Technical Cooperation: The Department of Management is divided into The Technical Cooperation Department is a seven divisions and offices: Division of Budget specialized organization of the United Nations and Finance, Division of General Services, that works to transfer nuclear technologies for Division of Conference and Document Services, peaceful applications throughout the world. Division of Human Resources, the Division of Employing a staff of over 190, the department Information Technology and the Office of works to create sustainable energy for member Procurement Services. These divisions and states. The Department disburses more than $70 offices work jointly to ensure the overall million (U.S.) worth of equipment, services and efficiency of the agency; including finance training to approximately 100 countries and monitoring, security of the Vienna International territories. The Department is divided into four Centre, effectiveness of agency meetings, human regional and one technical division: the Division resources, liaisons with media and the public, for Africa, Division for Asia and the Pacific, oversees the administration of technology Division for Latin America, Division for Europe, information, and finally to ensure the timely and the Division of Program Support and acquisition of goods and services. The Coordination. Avenues for cooperation and Department of Management is directed by Ms. participation include: participation as a Resource Janice Dunn Lee. Institution; provision of Expert Services; Participation in Meetings and Workshops; Involvement as a Fellow or Scientific Visitor for Department of Nuclear Energy: training in a specific field; participation in a The Department of Nuclear Energy works to Training Course; and, participation as a Supplier maintain the safe and efficient use of nuclear of goods or services. Each year, the Technical power by providing services and advice to Cooperation Department publishes its Technical Member States on nuclear power and the nuclear Cooperation Report, which is prepared by the fuel cycle. The Department is divided into two Director General. The report focuses on three divisions: Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and main pillars: 1) Strengthening the Agency’s Waste Technology and the Division of Nuclear Cooperation Activities, 2) the Program’s Power. Services and advice of the Department Accomplishments and Impacts, and 3) the 2 Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes © Center for Nonproliferation Studies Last Updated: 7/30/2019 IAEA

Management, Financial Resources, and Program South Asia, Africa, some non-EU European Delivery Indicators. For an overview of the states, and the Americas; and Operations C is regional and inter-regional projects conducted responsible for Europe, the Russian Federation under the technical cooperation (TC) program, and Central Asia), Division of Concepts and please click TC Activities in Regions. The Planning, Divisions of Information Management, Department of Technical Cooperation is headed Division of Technical Supports, and the Office by Mr. Dazhu Yang. of Analytical Services. The department uses three strategies to manage safeguards:

Traditional Measures, Strengthening Measures, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security: and Integrated Safeguards. Traditional measures and safeguards are performed by the IAEA upon The Department of Nuclear Safety and Security state-declared nuclear facilities. Strengthening works to establish IAEA safety and security measures (which are meant to strengthen the standards as well as knowledge management. It safeguards), fall into two categories: those under is divided into two divisions: Division of legal authority and those under complementary Radiation, Transport, and Waste Safety and legal authority as confirmed by the Additional Division of Nuclear Installation Safety; which Protocol. When implemented by a state, the establish sustainable education and training strengthened measure essentially becomes a programs for Incidents and Emergencies, comprehensive safeguard that allows for the Nuclear Installation Safety, Nuclear Security and inspection of declared and undeclared nuclear Radiation, transport and waste. The department sites. Finally, the integrated safeguard approach provides the applications for standards of the combines all safeguards, including the nuclear installations, radioactive sources and Additional Protocol, to achieve maximum materials, and the management of radioactive efficiency and assurance. Verification activities wastes. Ultimately, the department works to of the Department include: Safeguards protect people and the environment from the Agreements and Facilities; Training the IAEA effects of radiation and reduce the chance of Inspectorate; Safeguards Measures and nuclear accidents. The department works to Equipment; Safeguards and Current Events; and, advise and protect the public by publishing Safeguards and Disarmament Initiatives. The safety reports and by adhering to the Convention department has safeguards agreements with 182 on Nuclear Safety, the Convention on the States and with Taiwan and China; Additional Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, the Protocol agreements with 126 States and Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Euratom; and manages safeguards that are in Accident, the Convention on Assistance in the places at more than 1100 facilities around the Case of a Nuclear Accident, the Code of globe. According to the IAEA’s background Conduct of the Safety and Security of paper submitted to the 2010 NPT Review Radioactive Sources, and the Code of Conduct Conference, as of 2010, the Department on the Safety of Research Reactors. In order to employed “around 730 staff members, of whom maximize safety, the department develops safety some 245 are full-time safeguards inspectors.” procedures (often derived from existing legal The Department is headed by Mr. Tero frameworks and management practices) for Varjoranta. nuclear facilities and activities. The department is headed by Mr. Juan Carlos Lentijo. Department of Safeguards: The Department of Safeguards works to independently verify the correctness and the completeness of the declarations made by States about their nuclear material and activities. The Department of Safeguards is composed of the following divisions and offices: Office of the Deputy Director General, Three Operations Divisions (Operations A is responsible for inspections in Australasia and East Asia; Operations B is responsible for the Middle East, 3 Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes © Center for Nonproliferation Studies Last Updated: 7/30/2019