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Najat Mokhtar

Deputy Director General, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA
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Najat Mokhtar Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications at the IAEA. Prior to her appointment in 2019, she was Director of the Division for Asia and the Pacific in the Department of Technical Cooperation. She holds a PhD in Nutrition and Endocrinology from Laval University in Canada and has a doctorate in food sciences from the University of Dijon in France. She did postdoctoral training as a Fulbright fellow at Johns Hopkins University in the USA. Mokhtar served as the UN Nutrition Chair until 2025.