Luis Echávarri is the former Director-General of the

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Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). He was born in 1949 in

Bilbao Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the Provinces of Spain, province of Biscay and in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the List o ...

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. Mr. Echávarri has master's degrees from the Superior Technical School of Industrial Engineering of Bilbao University, and from the Faculty of Information Sciences of the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

. He is post-graduated from the Industrial Organization School of Madrid in Management, and is a Fellow of the College of Industrial Engineers of Madrid. In 1975 Luis Echávarri joined

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in Madrid, served also as a project manager of the Lemoniz, Sayago and Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant. In 1985 he became Technical Director of the

Spanish Nuclear Safety Council The Nuclear Safety Council (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear''; CSN) is the independent Spanish institution of the General State Administration, whose main purpose is to ensure nuclear safety and the radiation protection of ...

(CSN), and in 1987 he was named Commissioner of the CSN. In 1995-1997 he held post of Director-General of the Spanish Nuclear Industry Forum. In 1997 Luis Echávarri was appointed Director-General of NEA. He also represents the NEA on the Governing Board of the

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(IEA), and he is a member of the

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's International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group. In 2009, Luis Echávarri run for the post of Director General of the

, but was not elected.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Echavarri, Luis E. 1949 births Living people People from Bilbao Spanish engineers OECD officials People associated with nuclear power Nuclear power in Spain Complutense University of Madrid alumni University of the Basque Country alumni