Leadership

WNA Members appoint the Director General and elect a Board of Management.

The World Nuclear Association's DG is John Ritch. The Chairman of the Board is Tim Gitzel and the Vice-Chairman is Chris Crane. 

The WNA's Board of Management fulfils all statutory duties pertaining to the organisation's governance, sets WNA policies and strategic objectives subject to approval by the full membership, and instructs the Director General on the membership’s behalf. 

To ensure balance, the 15-member Board has at least two members from each of the three categories of WNA institutional membership: supplier, generator and general.

To facilitate the Board's representation of the WNA's entire institutional membership, each Board member performs liaison with a certain portion of the membership in a way designed to give every WNA member a direct channel to the Board.

Board members also act as Mentors for the various WNA Working Groups. This enables the Board to monitor the activities of the Working Groups and to shape the overall agenda of the Working Groups as a whole.

The Board convenes at least three times each year, and Board members communicate regularly with the WNA secretariat.

The Board of Management currently comprises:

	Tim Gitzel WNA Chairman President & CEO Cameco
	Chris Crane WNA Vice-Chairman President & CEO Exelon
	Paul Bowden Partner Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
	Aris Candris Senior Advisor & former CEO Westinghouse
	Yusheng Cai Vice General Manager CGNPC
	Dean Dalla Valle President, Uranium BHP Billiton
	Helmut Engelbrecht CEO Urenco
	Jean-Jacques Gautrot Senior Advisor & former CEO Areva UK
	Alexey Grigoriev CEO TENEX
	S. K. Jain Chairman & Managing Director NPCIL
	Jong-Shin Kim President & CEO Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
	Klaus Lohrey Managing Director Nukem
	Yoichi Maeda Senior Advisor Mitsubishi Corporation
	Per-Olof Nestenborg Managing Director Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel
	Caroline Reda President & CEO GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
	Georges Serviere Nuclear Counsellor to the CEO EDF
	Jiashu Tian Deputy Chief Engineer CNNC
	Hideki Toyomatsu Chief Nuclear Officer KANSAI
Honorary Board Members
	Hans Blix Director General-Emeritus International Atomic Energy Agency
	George Felgate Managing Director World Association of Nuclear Operators EX Officio member
	Gerald Grandey Former CEO, Cameco Chairman-Emeritus, WNA
	Zack Pate Chairman-Emeritus World Association of Nuclear Operators