Structure
WANO consists of a Governing Board, a central office in London and regional centres in Atlanta, Moscow, Paris and Tokyo, each with their own regional Governing Boards. Policy is set by the Governing Board and all policies and programmes are implemented by the WANO London office and the regional centres.
The Governing Boards
WANO’s Governing Board is accountable to the members for the association’s overall direction and success. To promote direct engagement of members at a high level, the Governing Board includes three members from each regional centre in addition to the Chairman and President.
Each regional Governing Board Chairman is automatically a WANO Governing Board member and the regional Governing Boards each nominate two additional candidates from their region, one of whom is expected to be the chief executive that represents the area’s largest or most influential member.
WANO’s Chairman is elected by the Governing Board for a two-year term and can serve for no more than four consecutive years, unless the Board decides otherwise.
Executive Leadership Team
WANO’s Managing Director is based in London with Directors in each of the four regional centres. Together, they make up the Executive Leadership Team, which is responsible for the day-to-day operation of WANO.
Staff and Secondees
The WANO London office and the four regional centres are staffed by experienced professionals, including managers and engineers seconded from WANO member organisations, and permanent support staff. Seconded personnel bring specific plant knowledge and an understanding of their own country’s operational culture to the WANO centres. In turn, they take back to their organisations a broad experience obtained from working at the centres and an insight into other members’ operations.
Chairman
Laurent Stricker, Former Chief Nuclear Officer of Electricité de France (EDF)
President
Vladimir Asmolov, First Deputy Director General of JSC Concern Rosenergoatom
Atlanta Centre Governors
Tom Mitchell, President and CEO, Ontario Power Generation
W. Gary Gates, President & CEO, Omaha Public Power District
Robert F. Willard, President and CEO, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)
Moscow Centre Governors
Arvo Vuorenmaa, Senior Manager, Strategic Ventures, Power Division, Fortum Power and Heat Oy
Yuriy Nedashkovsky, President, National Nuclear Energy Generating Company ‘Energoatom’
Eugeny Romanov, Director General, JSC Concern Rosenergoatom
Paris Centre Governors
Jos Bongers, Managing Director, N.V. Elektriciteits – Produktiemaatschappij Zuid – Nederland (EPZ)
Henri Proglio, Chairman and CEO, Electricité de France (EDF)
Bern Güthoff, Managing Director, E.ON Kernkraft GmbH
Tokyo Centre Governors
Jong-shin Kim, President & CEO, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., Ltd.
Dr Shreyans Kumar Jain, Chairman and Managing Director, NPCIL and BHAVINI
Makoto Yagi, President, Kansai Electric Power Company
Managing Director
George Felgate
Centre Directors
Atlanta Centre – Dave Farr
Moscow Centre – Mikhail Chudakov
Paris Centre – Ignacio Araluce
Tokyo Centre – Harunobu Shirayanagi
WANO Secretary
Rick Haley