Sigvard Eklund

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Dr. Sigvard Arne Eklund (born 1911 in Kiruna, Sweden) was a director of the IAEA security council from 1961 to 1981.

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Eklund obtained a Master of Science degree in 1936 and of Doctorate of Science in 1946. In 1937, he started working at the Nobel Institute of Physics as an assistant scientist. He was later promoted to senior scientist, and stayed at the Institute until 1945.

From 1946 to 1950, Dr. Eklund was a senior scientist at the Research Institute for National Defence in Stockholm. He was the Assistant Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1946 to 1956. From 1950 to 1956, he was Director of Research at the Swedish Atomic Energy Company (now called AB Atomenergi, Stockholm).

Starting in 1950, Dr. Eklund was the deputy to the managing director of AB Atomenergi. He was also the director of the reactor development division at AB Atomenergi from 1957 to 1961. In 1957, he was Secretary General for the Second International United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. He was appointed as Director General of the IAEA in 1961.