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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel-Laureate-in-Residence at the Fletcher School, Tufts University and Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize with the IAEA for his efforts “to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way." As Nobel-Laureate-in-Residence at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, ElBaradei will focus on a range of co-curricular activities, drawing on his experience as head of the IAEA as well as the critical role he played in Egypt through the recent years of political turmoil. An expert on international law and organizations, non–proliferation and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, ElBaradei has been at the center of efforts to address the nuclear crises in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.
ElBaradei served three terms as director general of the IAEA from December 1997 until November 2009, when he was appointed director general emeritus. He had been an IAEA staff member since 1984, holding a number of high-level policy positions, including that of legal adviser and subsequently assistant director general for external relations.
After leaving the IAEA, ElBaradei became involved in Egyptian politics and was seen as a potential leader of the transitional government after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi. In 2012, he was set to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections but withdrew his bid in January of that year in the absence of an agreed upon constitution. He was named interim vice president in July 2013 but resigned in protest a month later when security forces moved in to clear two protest camps in the capital, Cairo.
ElBaradei began his career in the Egyptian Diplomatic Service in 1964, serving in the Permanent Missions of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Subsequently, he served as a special assistant to the foreign minister of Egypt (1974 to1978), and he was a member of the negotiating team that led to the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty.
In 1980, ElBaradei left the Diplomatic Service to join the United Nations and became a senior fellow in charge of the International Law Program at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. From 1981 to 1987, he was also an adjunct professor of international law at the New York University School of Law.
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