Pierre Goldschmidt

Pierre Goldschmidt is a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment. Goldschmidt is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Association Vinçotte Nuclear (AVN). AVN is a non-profit organization charged with promoting the protection of people and the environment against nuclear, industrial, and radiological hazards.

Goldschmidt was the Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Safeguards, at the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1999 to June 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 the IAEA, Goldschmidt was, for 12 years, Director General of SYNATOM, the company responsible for the fuel supply and spent fuel management of seven Belgian nuclear plants. For six years Goldschmidt was a member of the Directoire of EURODIF, the large French uranium enrichment company.

Goldschmidt is a member of the European Nuclear Society’s High Scientific Council and has headed numerous European and international committees, including as Chairman of the Uranium Institute in London, of the Organisation des Producteurs d’Energie Nucléaire in Paris, and of the Advisory Committee of the EURATOM Supply Agency.

In November 2005 he became Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Brussels.

Among a number of cultural and scientific awards he received the 2008 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award of the American Physical Society.

Selected Recent Publications: Safeguards Noncompliance: A Challenge for the IAEA and the UN Security Council (Arms Control Today, Vol. 40, January/February 2010), Multilateral Nuclear Fuel Supply Guarantees and Spent Fuel Management: What Are the Priorities? (Daedalus, Vol. 139, No. 1, Winter 2010), The Future of the NPT: Should It be Enhanced, Changed or Replaced? (CEBRI International Seminar on Disarmament and Nonproliferation, Rio de Janeiro, October 29-30, 2009), Concrete Steps to Improve the Nonproliferation Regime (Carnegie Paper No. 100, April 2009), Exposing Nuclear Non-Compliance (Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Vol. 51, No. 1, February-March 2009), Saving the NPT and the Nonproliferation Regime in an Era of Nuclear Renaissance (Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, July 2008), IAEA Safeguards: Dealing Preventively with Non-Compliance (Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, July 2008), Verifying Iran’s Nuclear Program: Is the International Community Up to the Task? (Lamont Lecture at the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, October 2007), Rule of Law, Politics and Nuclear Nonproliferation (Presentation to the Ecole Internationale de Droit Nucléaire at the University of Montpellier, France, Session 2007)

Areas of Expertise

Over thirty years of experience in the private sector and in international organizations, in executive management, strategic planning, public relations, engineering, international business development, and negotiations at the highest level (Ministers, Ambassadors, Members of Parliament). Active international involvement in long term energy supply, environmental protection, nuclear non-proliferation, disarmament, and security.

Education

Ph.D., University of Brussels; M.S., University of California, Berkeley; B.A., Electro-mechanical Engineering, University of Brussels

Languages

Dutch; French