Mohamed M ElBaradei
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Dr Mohamed M ElBaradei is the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an intergovernmental organisation within the United Nations system. He was appointed to the office effective 1 December 1997. He has been a senior member of the IAEA secretariat since 1984. From 1984–87, he served as the representative of the IAEA Director General to the United Nations in New York. Thereafter, he became the Agency’s Legal Adviser and Director of its Legal Division, before heading the Division of External Relations, and becoming Assistant Director General for External Relations, in 1993. Dr ElBaradei was born in Egypt, gaining his initial law degree in the 1960s at the University of Cairo, and subsequently a Master’s degree and Doctorate in international law at the New York University School of Law in 1971 and 1974. He began his diplomatic career in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1964. He has also taught international law and lectured widely on arms control and non-proliferation, and on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. He belongs to a number of professional associations, including the International Law Association, the American Society of International Law, and the Nuclear Law Society. |
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