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​In order to improve project performance and in light of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project's specific managerial and cultural complexities, an External Management Advisory Board (EMAB) was established earlier this year. This week, the members of the EMAB convened for their first meeting at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Headquarters.

The objective of the EMAB is to advise the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization's senior managers and the Director-General on enhancing project and safety culture, a challenging activity in the context of a mega international project with seven Members. Also, the Board is charged with assessing the practical implementation of the set of actions that was decided in response to the carried out in 2013.

The Chair of this new entity is Jean Jacquinot, who also serves as scientific advisor to the Chairman of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Bernard Bigot.

Other Board members are Michael Tendler, professor at Sweden's Alfvén Laboratory (Royal Institute of Technology); Richard Hawryluk, head of the department of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ and Tokamaks at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (US); Dhiraj Bora, director of the Institute for Plasma Research, IPR (India); and Yuanxi Wan, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former Chairman of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC). °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ's Colette Ricketts, of the System Management Section, is in charge of the secretariat.

"During our first meeting held on 20-21 October, we had a very fruitful discussion," the Board members reported after the first meeting. "We openly addressed issues such as the project's nuclear and safety culture, options for improved alignment between the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization and the Domestic Agencies, and last but not least the creation of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Chief Executive Team, (ICET), formed to improve collaboration between all actors of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project."

The Board will continue to address key °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ management issues at its next meeting, scheduled for 11-12 December 2014.