Management Board - NEST
Ongoing

The main decision body of the NEST Framework is the Management Board which meets twice a year and is comprised of one member and one alternate from each NEST country.

The main roles and responsibilities of the NEST Management Board are to:

  • adopt the NEST programme of work and the NEST budget;
  • select the NEST Projects;
  • steer the NEST Framework.

As of 1 January 2025, Dr Stéphanie Cornet is the current Chair of the Management Board.

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Dr Stéphanie Cornet, CEA, Chair

Stephanie has 20 years working in the nuclear field and in particular in the area of the fuel cycle with an expertise in the chemistry of the actinide. She is a chemist with a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Durham (UK). She has a diploma in Management from the University of Manchester.

After 8 years as a senior research associate and a fellow in the centre for Radiochemistry Research at the University of Manchester, she joined the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency as a nuclear fuel cycle scientist in charge of co-ordinating international projects related to the Fuel Cycle and the Generation IV International Forum (GIF). She initiated, established and implemented a framework on skills, training and education - the NEST framework.

She joined the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) in 2020 as a project manager in charge of projects on multirecycling Pu in PWR and on advanced reprocessing. She is now working in international relations in charge of co-ordinating activities of the CEA in collaboration with other European countries and the United Kingdom and well as activities associated with the European Commission, and international organisations.

She is a member of several Programme Committees and has been invited as keynote panel speaker in international conferences. She currently serves as a member of the SNETP secretariat, and its associated committees, the Generation IV International Forum and is a member of the Bureau of WiN Ile de France. She acts as a mentor for young women in particular within the WiN France-UK programme, WiN Global and the French Nuclear Society.

 

Management Board members

The current members of the Management Board are: 

NEST Country Board Member Alternate Member

Belgium

Michèle Coeck

Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN)

Niels Belmans 

Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN)

Canada

Daniel Brady

Natural Resources Canada/Ressources naturelles Canada (NRCan/RNCan)

Jenny Cox

Natural Resources Canada/Ressources naturelles Canada (NRCan/RNCan)

France

Stéphanie Cornet

Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternative (CEA)

Marilyne Tombette

Autorité de sûreté nucléaire et de radioprotection (ASNR)

Germany

Helena Möller

Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH

Peter Ungelenk

Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH

Italy

Elisabetta Nava

Italian National Agency for new technologies, Energy and Sustainable economic development (ENEA)

 

Japan

Tetsuji Yamaguchi

Collaborative Laboratories for Advanced Decommissioning Science (CLADS)/Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)

Koji Okamoto  

Collaborative Laboratories for Advanced Decommissioning Science (CLADS)/Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)

Korea

Ik Jeong

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)

Bo Ram Kwon

Korea Nuclear International Cooperation Foundation (KONICOF)

Netherlands

Esther Kiezebrink

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy

Stefanie Klaassen

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy

Poland

Paweł Gajda

Ministry of Industry

Krzysztof Szymański

Ministry of Industry

Romania

Alexandra Mares

Ministry of Energy

Daniel-Mihai Dutu

Ministry of Energy

Russia

Valery Karezin

State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM)

 

Switzerland

Andreas Pautz

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)

Domenico Paladino

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)

United States 

Tony Feric

US Department of Energy (DOE)

Janelle Eddins

US Department of Energy (DOE)

 

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NEST Management Board members at the 10th NEST Management Board Meeting, 18-19 November 2024

Bureau members

The Management Board is supported in its day-to-day decision by a Bureau composed of Management Board members. 

At the 10th Management Board meeting in November 2024, the following positions were elected for the period of 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2026:

Chair and Bureau Member Stéphanie Cornet (France)
Vice-Chair and Bureau Member

Michèle Coeck (Belgium)

Bureau Member Koji Okamoto (Japan)
Bureau Member Jenny Cox (Canada)
Bureau Member Andreas Pautz (Switzerland)
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