World Nuclear Association (WNA) General Director

Agneta Rising became Director General of World Nuclear Association on 1 January 2013, having previously held the position of Vice President Environment at Vattenfall AB. In this post Ms. Rising headed a pan-European department focused on energy, environment and sustainability. Previously, Ms. Rising was Director for Nuclear Business Development at Vattenfall Generation.

ARN, Argentina

Abel Julio González is an argentine Academician, expert on the protection against radiation and nuclear safety and security. Representative at the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR); he has served to UNSCEAR for more than 40 years. Ex-Director of the IAEA Division of Radiation Transport and Waste Safety for 20 years. Honoured with several international awards including the Morgan Award twice in 2000 and 2003, the Sievert Prize in 2004, the Lauriston S. Taylor Lecturer Award in 2005 and the Marie Curie Prize in 2008 and the Academician Georgyi A. Zedgenidze medal in 2012.

Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK)

Anıl B. Bölme is currently the Project Manager for the licensing of Sinop NPP. He also leads the special group for the coordination of drafting, evaluating and planning nuclear safety regulations and international agreements. He also participated in drafting nuclear liability law and new nuclear law of Turkey.Mr. Bölme has a BSc. and a MSc. degrees in nuclear engineering from the Hacettepe University. He started his career in the Technology Department of the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) in 1995. Later, his work as a member of the special group formed for site and technology selection studies has led to the selection of Sinop Site as the candidate site for Turkey’s second NPP. He also was a member of the group establishing the TAEK criteria and evaluating the Russian bid for Akkuyu NPP tender.

NUTEK

Gül Göktepe, before participating in NUTEK Inc as consultant, she was the Nuclear Attaché and Adviser to the Resident Representative of Turkey in Vienna (2011-2014). She received her BSc. from Sussex University and MSc. in Nuclear Reactor Engineering from the University of London, UK. Then she worked for the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority for many years. She was awarded with IAEA fellowship and worked in Argonne National Laboratory in USA and Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in Canada. She developed a multipurpose training programme- NUSAC that stipulates cooperation with key authorities and stakeholders. She is known as nuclear environmentalist and received several awards including an international Black Sea medal. She is the founder and the president of WiN (Women in Nuclear) Turkey (NÜKAD) which is a chapter of the WiN Global.

Pillsbury

Elina Teplinsky is a Partner at Pillsbury Law and the lead for Pillsbury’s premier International Nuclear Projects team. Ms. Teplinsky, who spends a significant portion of her time in Istanbul, advises clients worldwide on a variety of complex nuclear transactional and regulatory issues, including advising on multibillion dollar nuclear project contracts, structuring nuclear new build projects for bankability, understanding and mitigating nuclear liability risks, developing and implementing nuclear legal and regulatory infrastructure, negotiation and implementation of bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements. She has lead since 2013 Pillsbury’s 360 degree advice to Akkuyu Nukleer, the company developing the first nuclear power project in Turkey, and is advising clients on nuclear projects in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

World Nuclear Association (WNA)

Greg Kaser has a degree in economics and politics from the University of Cambridge and began his career with the UK Atomic Energy Authority. He joined the World Nuclear Association in 2011 and has prepared three editions of its periodic market report on the nuclear supply chain and contributed to the revised report on nuclear economics. Greg’s work as the staff director for the WNA’s working groups on the supply chain and for security has developed industry thinking around learning the lessons from recent construction projects, the reform of the international export control regime, preventing the infiltration of counterfeit, fraudulent and suspect items into the supply chain, and on safety-security culture. He is currently working on good practices in risk management and in the corporate oversight of security at nuclear facilities.

Partner at Nuc Advisor - Consulting, France

Jean-Philippe Girard (Ph.D.), has more than 30 years of experience in research and development, operation and safety of nuclear facilities acquired as field worker, manager, operator, project manager, and regulator. He has been involved in Research and Development, start-up of NPP and has been operator of a prototype reactor. In his latest activities, he took part in new builds such as the fusion project ITER, the United Arab Emirates 4NPP project and the JRTR, a research reactor under construction in Jordan. His expertise is Safety in all stages of nuclear projects: design, construction and operation.

World Nuclear Association (WNA)

Mohammad Rababah has recently Joined World Nuclear Association as a project manager at CORDEL. He has worked at Jordan Atomic Energy Commission since 2014, contributing to the Jordan nuclear power plant project and then became SMR team leader. Mohammad has his master degree in nuclear energy/nuclear plant design from France at University of Paris Sud 11. He also has his bachelor degree in nuclear engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology.

NUTEK Chair

Necmi Dayday, earned a Masters degree (Cum Laude) in Nuclear Engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul (1969), a second M.Sc. degree in reactor physics at the Institute National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires (1971), Saclay, France. PhD. (High Honor) in reactor physics at the Faculté de Science, Centre d'Orsay Universite Paris-Sud (1973). He was senior researcher at TAEK Çekmece Nuclear Research and Education Centre in Istanbul (1969 – 1978). He was a member of the TAEK Nuclear Safety Committee and NPPs Site Selection Committee (1975-1978). He joined the IAEA Department of Research and Isotopes, Division of Research and Laboratories In 1978. In 1982, he was transferred to the Department of Safeguards as an inspector. In 1984, he was appointed Safeguards Evaluator and Unit Head for Reactor- Type Facilities (RTFs). From 1984 through 1996 he was senior safeguards analyst and inspector. He prepared the Safeguards Implementation Report for RTFs. He carried out hundreds of safeguards inspections in all types of nuclear facilities worldwide. He retired from the IAEA in 1998. Necmi Dayday shared in the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 awarded to the IAEA. In 2006, he received the prestigious TASAM (Turkish Asian Strategic Research Center) Award for “Scientist with Strategic Vision”. He has been Board Member and Project Manager at TASAM since 2007. He has been the Founding President and Board Chairman NUTEK Inc. Consulting since July 2014. During his long career, he organized and actively participated in national and international: conferences; seminars; summer schools; training courses, on many aspects of nuclear energy.

Head of World Nuclear University

Patricia Wieland is Head of the World Nuclear University (WNU) since January 2014, running several international leadership development programmes. Previously Deputy Director and Head of Infrastructure and Management of the Nuclear Engineering Institute, a nuclear research centre in Brazil, where she started as radiation protection officer in 1981. She held positions at the Brazilian Commission of Nuclear Energy such as: Head of Regulations Division, General Coordinator of Human Resources and Coordinator of Nuclear Installations Licensing. She was a staff member of the Department of Nuclear Safety of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna for almost six years, developing international recommendations on nuclear communications and training. PhD in Industrial Engineering from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

World Nuclear Association (WNA)

Shah Nawaz Ahmad is the Senior Adviser, World Nuclear Association (WNA), London. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering and has post-graduate qualifications in Nuclear Engineering as well as Systems Management. He has held senior positions with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), & World Association of Nuclear Operators, (WANO) Tokyo. He has also worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency & Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL).

Regional Center of ROSATOM in the Middle East and North Africa

Sergei Mikheev was conferred a Master Degree (Cum Laude) in Nuclear Engineering at the Urals State University (Ekaterinburg) in 1985. The first year after graduation he had been working as an operator at a small research reactor IVV-2M (15 MWt), after that for more than ten years he had been working at reactor department of Balakovo NPP (four 1GWe PWRs of VVER-1000 type, V-320 design). Actively participated in putting into operation Units 1, 2 and 3 of Balakovo NPP. In 1988 he was awarded a title “The best reactor operator of Balakovo NPP” and since 1991 had been working as a chief of a reactor department shift being responsible for monitoring and safe operating of two reactors VVER-1000. Before joining ROSATOM office in Dubai in 2016 he successfully accomplished MBA (Urals State University) and LLM (John Marshall Law School) Programs. Currently he is working in Dubai office of ROSATOM in a position of Business Development Manager.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nuclear Energy (NE) Department

Stefano Monti is currently the Head of the Nuclear Power Technology Development Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. From May 2011 to January 2015 he covered the position of IAEA Team Leader for Fast Reactor and ADS Technology Development. For almost 35 years he has been working on several national and international projects and programmes on advanced nuclear systems. Before joining the IAEA, as Director of Research at ENEA (Italy), Stefano was Head of the Division Reactor and Fuel Cycle Safety and Security Methods, President of the SIET company carrying out safety tests for the licensing of advanced GEN-III and SMR systems, and scientific coordinator of the Italian R&D programme on nuclear fission.

Project Manager in New BOO Projects Division, REIN JSC

Mr. Gabyash was as born in 1976 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Technology in 1998 (Faculty of Economics), got his MBA in International Finance & Banking in 2005. In 1999, he enrolled the Central Research Institute for Economics and Management of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry of Russia (now State Corporation ROSATOM). He worked there on the financial and strategical assessment of the transformation of the Ministry into the State Corporation. Between 2003 and 2006, he worked in the mining industry on the development of gold and silver mining assets in Eastern Siberia and Mongolia. In 2006, he joined the ROSATOM Mining Division, JSC Atomredmetzoloto and participated in the development of ROSATOM’s mineral resource base through the establishment of JV’s and acquisition of the mining assets in Eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgizstan, Namibia, Tanzania, South Africa, USA and Canada. In 2013, he joined the REIN JSC team and is currently working on the implementation of AKKUYU NPP and HANHIKIVI NPP. As part of ROSATOM State Nuclear Corporation, REIN JSC manages two new nuclear build projects – in Turkey and Finland.