65th IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE

Date: 23 September

Time: 16.00-17.30 (Moscow time)

           15.00-16.30 (Vienna time)

Organizer:
• ROSATOM
• Foundation for supporting and
development of women`s initiatives
"Union of women in nuclear"
• ROSATOM Corporate Academy

Moderator
• Mr Vladimir Artisyuk,
Advisor to Director General
of State Atomic Energy Corporation
ROSATOM

The global challenge of climate change as it is translated in the context of Paris Agreement requires shifting around 80% of electricity to low carbon energy sources. Nuclear power is considered as a key element of this sustainable energy transition.

To facilitate its global expansion including its penetration in the countries just embarking on nuclear power programmes nuclear technology development also needs to be supported by innovative solutions and greater participation from diverse talents – utmost of the world’s potential, half of which is represented by women.

Thus, among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set by the UN in 2015, two SDGs, namely «Affordable and Clean Energy» (SDG#7) and «Gender Equality» (SDG#5) might be combined in a synergistic manner through attracting more women into careers tracks in nuclear field. 

  Draft programme:

• Mr Mikhail Chudakov, Deputy Director General-Head of the Nuclear Energy Department of the IAEA 

• Ms Galina Karelova, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Eurasian Women’s Forum

• Ms Tatiana Terentieva, Deputy General Director, Rosatom State Corporation

• Ms Sama Bilbao y Leon, Director General of the World Nuclear Association (WNA)

• Ms Natalie Bonilla, Deputy Head, RP-HANS, Nuclear Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD NEA)

• Ms Florence Maher, Social Scientist RP-HANS, Nuclear Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD NEA)

• Ms Alesia Iunikova, Director of the Center for International Cooperation of the Rosatom Technical Academy, Chair of the International Cooperation Committee of the Foundation for supporting and development of women`s initiatives “Union of women in nuclear”

• Ms Veronika Peshkova, Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

• Mr Cristian Vega, IYNC Vice President

• Ms Princess Mthombeni, Nuclear Stakeholder Management Advisor, Department of Mineral Resources&Energy

• Ms Alice Cunha da Silva, Communication and Education Chair of Latin American Section –
  American Nuclear Society, Executive Committee of Women in Nuclear Brasil

• Ms Eduarda Oliveira Zoghbi, MPA Candidate in Energy and Environment, Columbia University