IAEA Board Re-appointment Rafael Mariano Grossi as Director General for 4 years

IAEA Board Re-appointment Rafael Mariano Grossi as Director General for 4 years

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: March 30 2023

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In March 2023, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reappointed Rafael Mariano Grossi as Director General (DG) of IAEA for a second four-year term.
His second term starts on 3 December 2023 and runs until 2 December 2027.
Rafael Mariano Grossi who is an Argentine diplomat started his first term of office on 3rd December 2019, following the General Conference’s approval of his appointment by the Board.
He is the sixth Director General since the IAEA was established in 1957.
Yukiya Amano of Japan was the 5th DG of IAEA (2009 to 2019).
Rafael Mariano Grossi joined the Argentinian Foreign Ministry in 1985 and served as the Head of the Embassy in Belgium and Luxemburg from 1998 to 2002.
He also served as the Chief of Cabinet at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague (Netherlands) from 2002 to 2007.
He has served as the president-designate of the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and president of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) (2014-2016).

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