Eleven countries have been newly elected to serve on the 35-member?IAEA Board of Governors?for the 2024–2025 period. The election took place on Thursday, 19 September, at the plenary session of the 68th IAEA General Conference.
The newly elected Board members are the following: Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Italy, Luxembourg, Georgia, Ghana, Morocco, Pakistan, Thailand and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
For the 2024-2025 period, the new composition of the 35-member IAEA Board will be as follows: ?Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Morocco, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Pakistan, Paraguay, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
The Board of Governors is one of the two policy-making bodies of the IAEA, along with the annual General Conference of IAEA Member States.?The Board will meet on Monday, 23 September, to elect its officers.