Grossi beat Romanian diplomat Cornel Feruta on Tuesday to become the director-general of the UN nuclear watchdog, according to the IAEA’s report.
He received 24 votes to Feruta’s 10 from the IAEA’s 35-member Board of Governors in the third official round of voting, reaching the two-thirds majority needed to become the new director-general.
Grossi will be appointed by board meeting, open to all of the IAEA’s 171 member states, on Wednesday, after which a general conference is expected to approve the decision. The appointment is for a term of four years.
Feruta had been the organization’s acting director-general since the death of Amano, who had led the agency since 2009. He died at age 72 on 18 July 2019.
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