Bogdan Tudorache

The Romanian diplomat Cornel Feruţă one of the two candidates nominated to take over the position of general director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), following the passing away of the GM Yukiya Amano.

As a consequence of the recent passing away of Director General Yukiya Amano, and in order to ensure the orderly and smooth functioning of the Agency, the Board of Governors has decided to designate Mr Cornel Feruta as acting Director General, until a Director General assumes office.

Currently head-coordinator of the IAEA, a position he is in charge since 2013, Cornel Feruţă is responsible for coordinating the Agency’s internal and external activities. Amano, a 72-year-old Japanese diplomat, was named in 2017 for a third consecutive four-year tenure at the head of the IAEA, a mandate that would have normally had ended on November 30, 2021. Yukiya Amano’s health continued to deteriorate visibly after the agency announced in September last year that he had undergone an unspecified medical procedure that took place outside of Austria, the country where the IAEA headquarters are located.