Graham Andrew

After graduating with a first class honours degree in chemistry, Graham Andrew worked initially for the U.K. Ministry of Defence at the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, concerning underground nuclear testing. At the UKAEA’s Harwell Laboratory, he led work on the development of radiometric instrumentation for the NDA of nuclear materials in bulk handling plants. The primary focus of these studies was the development of K Edge densitometry and X ray fluorescence, and differential die away neutron interrogation techniques. At the U.K.’s Department of the Environment, he was responsible for the U.K.’s long term research and development programme concerning the management and disposal of radioactive wastes. He then moved to the National Physical Laboratory, U.K.’s national standards laboratory, as head of the Radiation Dosimetry Branch in 1986. He was then head of the U.K. Safeguards Office in the Department of Trade and Industry, and was chairman of the IAEA’s Standing Advisory Group Oil Safeguards Implementation from 1996 to 2001. Since September 2001 he has been a Director in the IAEA as Special Assistant for Scientific and Technical affairs to the Director General, Mohamed Ei Baradei.