Leadership

WNA Members appoint the Director General and elect a Board of Management.

The World Nuclear Association's Director General is Agenta Rising. The Chairman of the Board is Tim Gitzel and the Vice-Chairman is Chris Crane. 

The WNA's Board of Management fulfils all statutory duties pertaining to the organisation's governance, sets WNA policies and strategic objectives subject to approval by the full membership, and instructs the Director General on the membership’s behalf. 

To ensure balance among the 18 elected members of the Board, each of the three categories of WNA institutional membership - supplier, generator and general - must be represented by at least two members. In addition, the Board has four distinguished honorary members.

To facilitate the Board's representation of the WNA's entire institutional membership, each Board member performs liaison with a certain portion of the membership in a way designed to give every WNA member a direct channel to the Board.

Board members also act as Mentors for the various WNA Working Groups. This enables the Board to monitor the activities of the Working Groups and to shape the overall agenda of the Working Groups as a whole.

The Board convenes at least three times each year, and Board members communicate regularly with the WNA secretariat.

The Board of Management currently comprises:

Â	Tim Gitzel WNA Chairman President & CEO CamecoÂ
Â	Chris Crane WNA Vice-Chairman President & CEO ExelonÂ
Â	Paul Bowden Partner Freshfields Bruckhaus DeringerÂ
Â	Aris Candris Senior Advisor & former CEO WestinghouseÂ
Â	Yusheng Cai Vice General Manager CGNPCÂ
Â	Dean Dalla Valle President, Uranium BHP BillitonÂ
Â	Helmut Engelbrecht CEO UrencoÂ
Â	Jean-Jacques Gautrot Senior Advisor & former CEO Areva UKÂ
Â	Alexey Grigoriev CEO TENEXÂ
Â	S. K. Jain Specialist Advisor NPCILÂ
Â	Kyunseop Kim President & CEO Korea Hydro & Nuclear PowerÂ
Â	Kirill Komarov Deputy Director General RosatomÂ
Â	Klaus Lohrey Managing Director NukemÂ
Â	Yoichi Maeda Senior Advisor Mitsubishi CorporationÂ
Â	Per-Olof Nestenborg Managing Director Vattenfall Nuclear FuelÂ
Â	Caroline Reda President & CEO GE Hitachi Nuclear EnergyÂ
Â	Georges Serviere Nuclear Counsellor to the CEO EDFÂ
Â	Jiashu Tian Deputy Chief Engineer CNNCÂ
Â	Hideki Toyomatsu Chief Nuclear Officer KANSAIÂ
Honorary Board MembersÂ
Â	Hans Blix Director General-Emeritus International Atomic Energy Agency Â
Â	George Felgate Managing Director World Association of Nuclear Operators EX Officio member Â
Â	Gerald Grandey Former CEO, Cameco Chairman-Emeritus, WNA
Â	Zack Pate Chairman-Emeritus World Association of Nuclear Operators Â

 

Two subcommittees contribute to the oversight of the board, the Government & Nominations subcommittee and the Audit & Finance subcommittee. The membership of these two bodies is as follows:

Governance & Nominations (G&N)  

Tim Gitzel
Chris Crane
Jean Jacques-Gautrot
Georges Serviere
Yoichi Maeda
Alexi Grigoriev
Jerry Grandey

Secretary: Stuart Cloke

Audit & Finance (A&F) 

Tim Gitzel
Paul Bowden
Klaus Lohrey

Secretary: Stuart Cloke