Olli Heinonen
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| Born | 1946 Helsinki, Finland |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
Former Deputy Director-General for Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency | |
Not to be confused with Olli-Pekka Heinonen, a Finnish civil servant and fellow Bilderberger.
Dr Olli Heinonen was the Deputy Director-General for Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Background
Heinonen studied radiochemistry at the University of Helsinki where he obtained his Ph.D with a dissertation on nuclear material analysis in 1981.[1]
Career
Heinonen is a Senior Advisor of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and United Against Nuclear Iran. Both groups are strongly aligned with US/Israeli foreign policy could reasonably be suspected to be front organizations.
As Senior Research Officer at the Technical Research Centre of Finland Reactor Laboratory, Heinonen was in charge of research and development related to nuclear waste solidification and disposal. Heinonen co-authored several patents on radioactive waste solidification. In 1983 he joined the IAEA. From 1999 to 2002, he was Director of Operations A and from 2002–2005, he was the Director of Operations B in the Department of Safeguards.
As Deputy Director-General for Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency, he helped identify A. Q. Khan.
He is an associate of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.