Mohamed ElBaradei

Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

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Born 1942
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Iran: The Hundred Year…
2009

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Updated 2026-09-08

The Egyptian diplomat who spent twelve years trying to keep the world's nuclear programs peaceful won a Nobel for it, then came home to find himself in the middle of two revolutions.

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Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei was born 17 June 1942 and trained as a lawyer before moving into diplomacy. In 1997 he became Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a post he held until 2009, working to prevent nuclear energy from military use and ensure its safe civilian application. That effort earned him and the IAEA the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. He left the role as Director General Emeritus and returned to Egypt as the country convulsed: the 2011 revolution toppled Hosni Mubarak, and two years later a coup reshaped the state again. For one month in the summer of 2013 — 14 J…

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My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

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Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations...

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I think we need to continue working hard on developing a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East... unfortunately things are not going in the right direction right now.

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You remember that book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? … Well that's very much true.

— Comparing his work as an international diplomat to that of his wife, Aida Elkachef, a kindergarten teacher, with a mention of the book by

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I very much believe that we share the same human values... If you scan through all the religions — monotheistic and others — they all preach the same...

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