Ana María Cetto Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. She has also been director of the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM, as well as a professor and researcher at the same institution. Ana Maria Cetto was Council member of the Pugwash Conferences when the International organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. Being Deputy Technical Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, she was also participant of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. In 2003, she was named "Woman of the Year" and several other distinctions as member of the Third World Academy of Science (with headquarters in Italy), the Mexican
International Atomic Energy Agency percent of the money spent on developing new weapons would be enough to feed the entire world, and that, if we hope to escape self-destruction, then nuclear weapons should have no place in our collective conscience, and no role in our security. On 2 July 2009, Yukiya Amano of Japan was elected as the Director General for the IAEA, defeating Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa and Luis E. Echávarri of Spain. On 3 July 2009, the Board of Governors voted to appoint Yukiya Amano "by acclamation," and IAEA General Conference in September 2009 approved. He took office on 1