IAEA Staff : Management
Mr. Olli Heinonen, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
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Mr. Olli Heinonen was appointed as the Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Safeguards, at the International Atomic Energy Agency, in July 2005. The Department of Safeguards is responsible for verifying that nuclear material placed under safeguards is not diverted to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices and that there is no undeclared nuclear material or activities in non-nuclear weapons States party to the NPT.
Before joining the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1983, Mr. Heinonen was a Senior Research Officer at the Technical Research Centre of Finland Reactor Laboratory Otakaari, Espoo, Finland.
From 1999–2002, Mr. Heinonen was Director of Operations A and from 2002-2005, he was the Director of Operations B in the Department of Safeguards.
Mr. Heinonen studied Radiochemistry and holds a Ph.D in Radiochemistry from the University of Helsinki, Finland.
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