Elena Buglova is Head of the IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre.
She received her professional experience in emergency preparedness for response and in radiation protection in Belarus, which was heavily affected by the 1986 Chernobyl accident. Before joining the IAEA in 2002, Elena was working as the Head of the Laboratory of Radiation Safety and Risk Analysis at the Institute of Radiation Medicine of Belarus. She was involved in the development and justification of criteria for protective actions in Belarus after Chernobyl, risk assessment of radiation-induced health effects and in updating the national emergency plans based on the Chernobyl experience.