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Bruno Pellaud
President, Swiss Nuclear Society
Former Deputy Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency

Bruno Pellaud studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich where he received a M.S. in Nuclear Physics, at the University of Lausanne where he got a M.A. in Economics and at New York University where he earned a PhD in Nuclear Engineering.

In the sixties and seventies, Pellaud worked in research and in management in California and in Switzerland.  In the eighties, he was Head of the Nuclear Department of a Swiss engineering company involved in the construction of a large nuclear power plant in Switzerland.  In 1993, Bruno Pellaud became Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna and Head of its Department of Safeguards - focusing on the strengthening of the safeguards system, and dealing with the North-Korean and Iranian issues. Back in Switzerland since 1999, he is President of the Swiss Nuclear Forum, the main nuclear association of the country, as well as nuclear consultant and occasional adviser on nuclear security and proliferation matters to the Swiss Government.

A frequent lecturer on proliferation issues, he has recently participated in various events at the universities of Princeton, Harvard and California, in a NATO meeting in Moscow, in two Dutch- German-Bristish diplomatic conferences in Berlin and London, as well as in several seminars in Geneva in the context of the Conference on Disarmament.

 




 

 

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