On 12 March 1999, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, has announced the following appointment:

Mr. Pierre Goldschmidt, from Belgium, as Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Safeguards, to be effective 1 May 1999.

Mr. Goldschmidt studied Electro-Mechanical Engineering at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium and at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from the Free University of Brussels. In 1979 he was awarded a diploma in Marketing and Management from the Solvay Ecole de Commerce. From 1966 to 1971 Mr. Goldschmidt was employed as an engineer at Belgonucléaire. In 1971 he joined Electrobel Engineering in Belgium as Engineer and then Chief Engineer. In 1977 he joined SYNATOM in Brussels where he has held the position of General Manager since 1987. Since 1978, Mr. Goldschmidt has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the EURATOM Supply Agency as well as of the Executive Committee of the Uranium Institute, London. From 1993 he has been a member of the Executive Committee of EURODIF, France, and for the last three years he has been Chairman of the Organisation des Producteurs d’Energie Nucléaire (OPEN) in France.