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Seminar

How Iran Changed the IAEA

Open to the Public

Laura Rockwood is Executive Director of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation (VCDNP) and is an associate of the Belfer Center's Project on Managing Atom. Ms. Rockwood retired in November 2013 from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as the Section Head for Non-Proliferation and Policy Making in the Office of Legal Affairs, where she had served since 1985. Prior to her departure she was the senior legal adviser on safeguards to the IAEA Director General. Earlier in her career, Ms Rockwood was employed by the U.S. Department of Energy as a trial attorney in radiation injury cases, and as counsel in general legal matters.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
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Laura Rockwood is Executive Director of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation (VCDNP) and is an associate of the Belfer Center's Project on Managing Atom. Ms. Rockwood retired in November 2013 from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as the Section Head for Non-Proliferation and Policy Making in the Office of Legal Affairs, where she had served since 1985. Prior to her departure she was the senior legal adviser on safeguards to the IAEA Director General. Earlier in her career, Ms. Rockwood was employed by the U.S. Department of Energy as a trial attorney in radiation injury cases, and as counsel in general legal matters.

Laura Rockwood received a Juris Doctor degree in 1976 from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the State Bar of California and of the Washington DC Bar Association.