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, Authorized Inspection Organization charged with verifying compliance of nuclear power plants with Belgian safety regulations.
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 has headed numerous European and international committees, including as Chairman of the Uranium Institute in London and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the EURATOM Supply Agency.
Selected Recent Publications:
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
