Board cover-final 23 May 2008_TR_gov2008-22gc52-4Role of IAEA in 2020 and Beyond_BODY_TIMES NEW ROMAN20-20_COVER_One Column_TIMES NEW ROMAMN20-20_REPORT_One Column_TIMES NEW ROMAMNBoard of Governors General Conference GOV/2008/22-GC(52)/INF/4Date: 23 May 2008General DistributionOriginal: EnglishFor official use only Item 8 of the Board's provisional agenda (GOV/2008/20) Report of the Commission of Eminent Persons on the Future of the Agency Note by the Director General • During the General Conference in September 2007, the Director General announced that he was establishing an independent Commission of Eminent Persons to reflect upon the nature and scope of the Agency’s programme up to 2020 and beyond. Membership of the Commission was drawn from a wide range of expertise — public policy making, management, finance and technology. The Commission was chaired by Professor Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico. The Commission’s report addresses the many challenges and opportunities which the Agency faces in the coming years and sets out concrete recommendations. The Director General trusts that the report will receive thorough consideration by Member States. • A background document prepared by the Secretariat in February 2008 for the work of the Commission is attached as an annex. Atoms for PeaceGOV/2008/22-GC(52)/INF/4 Page i REINFORCING THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR ORDER FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY: THE ROLE OF THE IAEA TO 2020 AND BEYOND Report prepared by an independent Commission at the request of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency May 2008GOV/2008/22-GC(52)/INF/4 Page ii © 2008 International Atomic Energy Agency This Commission is fully independent. Members serve in their personal capacity and not under instructions from any government or organization. The report reflects strictly personal views of the members of the Commission and is in no way an expression of their views in their official capacity nor the views of any government or organization with which they are affiliated. The members of the Commission endorse the report as a whole but do not each subscribe to every statement and recommendation in the text. In particular, Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel would have preferred a more skeptical perspective on the prospects of nuclear energy. Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram, Senator Lamberto Dini and Ms. Anne Lauvergeon, on the other hand, believe that the report does not always give a balanced representation of nuclear energy issues. They feel that the safety and security risks have been exaggerated and consider that these issues are being adequately addressed and improvements continually made, with the constructive support of the IAEA, resulting in increased safety and security of nuclear energy. In their opinion, the expansion of nuclear energy can be pursued in a safe and secure manner, provided the required institutional and safety framework is put in place in the countries that are newcomers to nuclear energy. While fully appreciating the importance of global nuclear disarmament, they do not accept that there should be a direct correlation between disarmament and deployment of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. At any rate, they estimate that the issue of disarmament is beyond the Statute of the IAEA and should not be within the scope of this report, for it is being addressed by the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.GOV/2008/22-GC(52)/INF/4 Page iii Commission members Ambassador Oluyemi Adeniji (Nigeria) – former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria; former Member of the Board of Governors of the IAEA Lajos Bokros (Hungary) – Professor of Economics and Public Policy, and Chief Operating Officer of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Lakhdar Brahimi (Algeria) – Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; former UN Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, and Chair of the UN Panel on Peace Operations Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram (India) – Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, and DAE-Homi Bhabha Professor; former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; former Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Senator Lamberto Dini (Italy) – President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Senate Gareth Evans (Australia) – President and Chief Executive Officer, International Crisis Group; former Australian Foreign Minister; former Minister for Resources and Energy Louise Fréchette (Canada) – Distinguished Fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation; former Deputy Minister and former UN Deputy Secretary-General Anne Lauvergeon (France) – Chief Executive Officer of AREVA Kishore Mahbubani (Singapore) – Dean, Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore; former Ambassador to the UN, and former President of the UN Security Council Ambassador Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg (Brazil) – President of the National Telecommunication Agency of Brazil; former Permanent Representative of Brazil to the UN; former Minister of Science and Technology, Brazil Ambassador Pius Yasebasi Ng’Wandu (Tanzania) – former Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education, and Minister of Water, United Republic of Tanzania Senator Sam Nunn (United States) – Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative; former United States Senator Ambassador Karl Theodor Paschke (Germany) – former UN Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services; former Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the IAEA Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel (Austria) – former Federal Chancellor of Austria; Leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Austrian People’s Party Academician Evgeny Velikhov (Russia) – President of the Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute; Academician and Secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences Professor Wang Dazhong (China) – Honorary Chairman of Tsinghua University Council; Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences; former President of Tsinghua University; Director of the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology (INET) of Tsinghua University Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (Japan) – President of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo; former President of the University of Tokyo Ernesto Zedillo, Chair (Mexico) – Director of the Yale Center for the