Mohammed elbaradei biography
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Mohamed ElBaradei
Before we discuss your present work, we’d like to hear something about your childhood and your parents. What kind of work did they do, and how do you think that influenced your own anställda journey?
Mohamed ElBaradei: My father was a lawyer. My mother was a homemaker. My father was president of the Egyptian Bar Association. He was involved very much during the Nasser era — which was one of the most repressive eras in Egyptian history — in fighting for democracy, fighting for human rights, and inom think that to a lot of extent shaped my view as to what inom wanted to do in the future. I wanted to have a world where people are free to något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans their views, to have freedom of worship, to have freedom from want, and inom saw poverty in Egypt when inom grew up. To me, freedom, in the larger sense — to be able to speak, to worship, free from want, free from fear — I think it was a key as to what inom thought inom would like to do when inom grow up.
Did you have any siblings?
Mo
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Mohamed ElBaradei
Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency 1997-2009
Interim Vice President, Egypt 2013
Biographical Information
Mohamed ElBaradei is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009 and as interim Vice President of Egypt in 2013.
Public Career
In 2005, Mohamed ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy, for peaceful purposes, is used in the safest possible way.
Mohamed ElBaradei gained a Bachelor’s degree in Law in 1962 at the University of Cairo, and a Doctorate in International Law at New York University School of Law in 1974.
He began his career in the Egyptian Diplomatic Service in 1964, serving in the Permanent Missions of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and Geneva. During his career, he participated in the policy and l
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Mohamed ElBaradei
Egyptian law scholar
Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei (Arabic: محمد مصطفى البرادعي, romanized: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá al-Barādaʿī, Egyptian Arabic:[mæˈħæmːædmosˈtˤɑfɑ(ʔe)lbæˈɾædʕi]; born 17 June 1942) is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who served as the vice president of Egypt on an interim basis from 14 July 2013 until his resignation on 14 August 2013.[1]
He was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an intergovernmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations (UN), from 1997 to 2009. At the end of his tenure he was appointed “Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency”. He and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way".[2] ElBaradei was also featured in the Western pre