Rafael Grossi elected new Director General of IAEA
Rafael Grossi elected new Director General of IAEA
The 58-year-old Gossi will be appointed for a term of four years and will assume office no later than 1 January 2020.
He will be the sixth head of IAEA since it was founded more than six decades ago in 1957.
Grossi is a nuclear and diplomatic veteran from Buenos Aires in Argentina.
He graduated from the Argentine Foreign Ministry's National Foreign Service Institute and the University of Geneva in 1985.
He headed the IAEA headquarters in the Austrian capital of Vienna and the UN's Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague in the Netherlands from 2002 to 2007.
He was the chief political coordinator at the Argentine Foreign Ministry from 2007 to 2010, before being named an ambassador to Belgium, while doubling as Argentine envoy to the UN office in Geneva.
The IAEA had appointed Grossi as its assistant director-general in 2010 for a stint of three years.
He has been Argentina's ambassador to Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia and the permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna since 2013.
He headed the Nuclear Suppliers Group, which is a multinational export control regime, the Convention on Nuclear Security and was deputy to the head of the OPCW between 2014 and 2016.