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Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers SESSION 1 Moderator – Dr. Ivan Pedro Salati Director for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety, and Member of the Delib- erative Commission of the Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear (CNEN); Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Commission of Safety Standards (CSS). Dr. Salati received an undergraduate degree from the Physics Institute of the Universidade de São Paulo; MBA in engineering eco- nomics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; an MBA in business ad- ministration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; an MSc in nuclear energy from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia; and a DSc in nuclear engineering from the Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia (COPPE/UFRJ). Panelists Dr. Michael L. Corradini Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Corradini is a mechanical and nuclear engineer whose research interests are centered primarily in thermal hydraulics and multiphase flow, with emphasis on reactor operation, reactor safety, reprocessing and recycle, and risk assessment. In 2006, he was elected to the National Council on Radiation Protection and has served as an appointed member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. He was elected as the president of the American Nuclear Society for 2012 to 2013. He also serves on the National Research Council’s Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board and the Committee on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. 81 

82 Brazil-U.S. Workshop on Strengthening the Culture of Nuclear Safety and Security Dr. Claudio Almeida Advisor to the Director of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety, CNEN. Dr. Almeida spent 14 years in the Department of Nuclear Safety of the IAEA in Vienna, working first as a computer code specialist and later joining the Project on Safety of VVER and RBMK nuclear power plants. He also conducted several technical cooperation missions in Mexico, Republic of Korea, Pakistan, India, Iran, China, and Cuba. He has an electrical and electronic engineering degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He earned a PhD in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1975. Mr. William Tobey Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration. Mr. Tobey managed the U.S. government’s largest program to prevent nuclear proliferation and terrorism by detecting, securing, and disposing of dangerous nuclear material. Mr. Tobey also served on the Na- tional Security Council Staff in three administrations, in defense policy, arms control, and counter-proliferation positions. He has participated in international negotiations ranging from the START talks with the Soviet Union to the Six- Party Talks with North Korea. He also has extensive experience in investment banking and venture capital. SESSION 2 Moderator – Admiral James O. Ellis Jr Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Member, Arctic Security Initia- tive, Stanford University. Admiral Ellis retired as president and chief executive officer of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations in 2012. In 2004, he com- pleted a distinguished 39-year navy career as commander of the United States Strategic Command. He holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and, in 2005, was inducted into the school’s Engineering Hall of Fame. He completed United States Navy Nuclear Power Training and was qualified in the operation and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants. In 2009, he completed 3 years of service as a presidential ap- pointee on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and, in 2006, was a member of the Military Advisory Panel to the Iraq Study Group. In 2013, Admi- ral Ellis was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Rapporteur – Dr. Francisco Luiz Lemos Researcher, Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN). Since 2011, Dr. Lemos has been a member of the Safety Analysis Group of Centro de Engenharia Nuclear (CEN) doing work with fuzzy logic and the STAMP meth- odology. In 2012 he was a research assistant for Professor Nancy Leveson in the 

Appendix B 83 Aeronautic Engineering Department of MIT, working on a U.S. Nuclear Regula- tory Commission-financed project to study the U.S. Evolutionary Power Reac- tor. He has previously worked at the Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear (CDTN) in Safety Analysis of Nuclear Installations. He graduated in mechanical engineering from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC/MG) and has a DSc in environmental geochemistry from the Fed- eral University of Ouro Preto. Panelists Mr. Ricardo Moraes dos Santos Product Development Engineer, Embraer (Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A.). Mr. Santos has taken professional specialization training in safety assess- ment from Kansas University (U.S.) and systems engineering from MIT. He graduated in computer engineering at the University of Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP) and has completed a latu sensu post-graduation program in safety, continuing airworthiness at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA). Dr. Stephanie Morrow Human Factors Analyst, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Dr. Morrow has been with the U.S. NRC since Febru- ary 2011 and serves as a project manager for various safety culture and human performance research activities. She has conducted studies of safety culture and its relationship to employee behaviors and organizational performance, devel- oped surveys for use in the assessment of safety culture, and served as a safety culture assessor during onsite inspections of nuclear power plants. She has a PhD and master's degree in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Connecticut. She has also worked as an engineering psychologist at the Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Research Center. Dr. Jorge Eduardo Sarkis Head of Group, Chemical and Isotopic Characterization, and Professor of Grad- uate Studies in Nuclear Technology, IPEN, since 1993. Dr. Sarkis studied chem- istry at the Federal Fluminense University with postgraduate courses in nuclear engineering from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Rio de Janeiro. He has conducted research in thermionic mass spectrometry (TIMS) applied to nuclear chemistry at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany. He did postdoctoral research in mass spectrometry with inductively coupled plasma source (ICPMS) at the National Environmental Research Council, University of London, Eng- land and in nuclear forensics at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, United States. Since 2007, he has worked with the IAEA on nuclear forensics. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Brazilian Society of Forensic Sciences. 

84 Brazil-U.S. Workshop on Strengthening the Culture of Nuclear Safety and Security SESSION 3 Moderator – Mr. Marcos Antônio Viana Tavares Systems Integration/Software Manager, Chief Engineer Office, Embraer. Mr. Tavares graduated in electrical engineering at the Universidade Federal de Uber- lândia (UFU) and earned an MSc at ITA. He has worked for Embraer for 28 years in the following areas: stall protection system, automatic flight controls, flight controls (fly-by-wire) as product development engineer; and in research and development as fly-by-wire/embedded computational systems project tech- nical leader. Panelists Mr. Ivan de Souza Azevedo Safety Coordination, Technical Exchange Missions, IAEA. Mr. Azevedo is a chemist with a master’s degree in analytic physical chemistry from the Chemis- try Institute of UFRJ and an MBA in business management from the Polytechnic School of UFRJ. Working at Eletronuclear for 18 years, he was responsible for the radiochemical and chemical control of Angra 1 and participated in various safety reviews of nuclear power plants, including some in England and Russia. In the past 4 years, he has been working in safety coordination, and in 2011 was invited by CNEN to attend the Fifth Meeting of the International Convention on Nuclear Safety at the IAEA. Currently, he works in safety culture for technical exchange missions with the IAEA, among other projects. Dr. Antonio C. O. Barroso Professor and Senior Researcher, IPEN. Dr. Barroso teaches and conducts re- search in nuclear knowledge management, safety culture and Web information mining of nuclear-related subjects. Previously, he served as research and devel- opment director and commissioner of CNEN and also as a Brazilian alternate governor at the Board of the IAEA. From 2001 to 2012 he was a member of the Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Applications (SAGNA) for the director general of IAEA. He has also been a member of the Halden Reactor Project Board of Directors and of the Advisory Council for Industrias Nucleares do Bra- sil (INB) and Nuclebrás Equipamentos Pesados (NUCLEP). He graduated in mechanical engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and has a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT. Mr. Michael O’Brien Associate Program Leader for the Global Security Directorate, Lawrence Liv- ermore National Laboratory. Mr. O’Brien has more than 35 years of domestic and international experience in the fields of vulnerability assessment, including insider analysis, physical protection systems, protective force, and transportation security. He has served on Department of Army, Department of Navy, and De- 

Appendix B 85 partment of Energy working groups for the formulation of physical protection policy guidance and regulations and has provided similar support under U.S. government bilateral work with the European Commission, IAEA, Russian Fed- eration, India, and China. Mr. O’Brien graduated from the University of Mary- land. SESSION 4 Moderator – Mr. Michael O’Brien (see Session 3) Panelists Dr. Robert A. Bari Senior Physicist and Senior Advisor, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Bari has worked on projects and issues regarding nuclear safety and nonproliferation technologies, nuclear waste management, and development of advanced nuclear reactors and has directed numerous studies of advanced nuclear energy con- cepts. He is currently co-chair of the working group that has developed a com- prehensive methodology for evaluation of proliferation resistance and physical protection of all new nuclear energy concepts of Generation IV International Forum. He was awarded the Theo J. “Tommy” Thompson Award in 2003 by the American Nuclear Society. In 2004, he received the Brookhaven National La- boratory Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science and Technology. He holds a BS in physics from Rutgers University and a PhD in physics from Brandeis University. Dr. Bari serves as a member of the U.S. National Research Council Committee on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. Dr. Alan S. Hanson Executive Director, International Nuclear Leadership Educations Program, MIT. Previously, Dr. Hanson served as executive vice president of technologies and used fuel management at AREVA NC Inc. Dr. Hanson also continues his re- sponsibilities as chief executive officer of Transnuclear, Inc., an AREVA com- pany. He began his career in 1975 with the Nuclear Services Division of Yankee Atomic Electric Company. In 1979, he joined the IAEA, where he served first as coordinator of the International Spent Fuel Management Program and later as policy analyst in the areas of safeguards and nonproliferation policies. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society and the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineers. He holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford Univer- sity and a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT. Dr. Filomena Ricco Professor of Aerospace Sciences, Air Force University (UNIFA). Dr. Ricco is also an advisor to the Air Force Department of Science and Technology and a 

86 Brazil-U.S. Workshop on Strengthening the Culture of Nuclear Safety and Security collaborating researcher for the Center for Environmental Research and Studies at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Her expertise is focused on man- agement of science and technology, more specifically on methodology and man- agement tools, knowledge management, strategic management, and organiza- tional behavior. She holds a BS in psychology from the University of Taubaté and an MSc and DSc in administration from Faculdade de Economia, Admin- istração e Contabilidade (FEA) of the University of São Paulo (USP). SESSION 5 Moderator – Dr. Leonam dos Santos Guimarães Director of Planning and Environmental Management, Eletrobras Eletronuclear. Formerly, Dr. Guimarães was coordinator of the Brazilian Navy Nuclear Propul- sion Program, professor of management at the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation at the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (EP-USP), executive assistant to the chief executive officer of Eletronuclear, and technical and commercial director of Amazonia Azul Tecnologias de Defesa S.A. (AMAZUL). He has 30 years of experience in research, development, engineer- ing, procurement, and construction of naval and nuclear systems. He is member of IAEA’s Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy (SAGNE) and author of several books and papers on engineering, management, and nuclear policy. He holds a BSc in naval sciences from the Brazilian Naval Academy, an MSc in nuclear engineering from the University of Paris VI and a PhD in ocean engi- neering on naval nuclear propulsion from the EP-USP. Panelists Dr. Michael L. Corradini (see Session 1) Mr. Paulo César da Costa Carneiro Technical Advisor, Technical Directorate, Eletrobras Eletronuclear. Mr. Car- neiro is responsible for planning and management coordination for plant opera- tion and new projects. He is also the coordinator of the Eletronuclear Fukushima Response Committee. Previously, he worked in the safety-related instrumenta- tion and control design for Angra 2 nuclear power plant (NPP) at Siemens head- quarters in Germany, then headed the NPP’s Technical Support and Commis- sioning Department of FURNAS Centrais Elétricas. He was also the deputy superintendent during Angra 2 construction and head of the Planning and Budg- et Department at NUCLEN Engineering. He has a BS in electronic engineering from UFRJ, specialization courses in nuclear engineering and project manage- ment from COPPE/UFRJ, and an MBA in Business Finance from Instituto Bra- sileiro de Mercado de Capitais. 

Appendix B 87 Major General Donald Alston Chief Executive Officer, Alston Strategic Consulting. General Alston was com- mander of the 20th Air Force, Air Force Global Strike Command, and com- mander of Task Force 214, U.S. Strategic Command, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. He was responsible for the nation’s intercontinental bal- listic missile force, organized into three operational wings with more than 9,600 people. He has worked as a liaison officer to the U.S. House of Representatives, and also performed duties as the executive assistant to the secretary of the air force in Washington, D.C. General Alston also served as the deputy chief of staff for strategic communications and the spokesperson for Multi-National Force - Iraq in Baghdad. In 2012, General Alston retired from military service. He has a BS from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado and an MA in busi- ness administration from Golden Gate University in California. SESSION 6 Moderator – Major General Donald Alston (see Session 5) Panelists Admiral James O. Ellis Jr. (see Session 2) Mr. Luciano Pagano Jr. Rear Admiral Luciano Pagano Jr. is the superintendent of the nuclear program of the Marinha do Brasil (the Brazilian Navy). He graduated in Chemical Engi- neering from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia and graduated with a degree in Mathematics from UFRJ. He earned a master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Campinas. Dr. Sonja Haber Consultant. Dr. Haber has been conducting work in human performance analysis for more than 30 years. She has been involved in the evaluation and intervention of human performance strategies in various applications. For the last 20 years, Dr. Haber’s work has focused on improving human performance within organizations that must operate with a high degree of reliability. She has conducted fieldwork for various international agencies in efforts to enhance human performance, in- cluding cross-cultural analysis of organizational issues in safety culture and man- agement and supervisory skills. Most recently, Dr. Haber has conducted safety culture evaluations in various organizations, including organizational interven- tions, leadership and management training, enhanced communication and observa- tional skills training, and working towards the development of performance measures for organization and management processes.