All in the family
Director-General Pietro Barabaschi's message to ITER Organization and Domestic Agency staff on 19 October 2022 could be summarized in these words: ITER is one and everyone is ITER.
Whether in southern France, where the installation is being built, or in any country participating in the project, each person must pursue the same objective: work to the best of her/his ability to make ITER a success. Online or in person, approximately 1,500 staff and contractors from across the project attended the first all-staff event of his tenure.
On stage with the new Director-General (second from right), the heads of the ITER Domestic Agencies each expressed the same determination. From left to right: Kathy McCarthy (USA), Anatoly Krasilnikov (Russia), Kijung Jung (Korea), Makoto Sugimoto (Japan), Ujjwal Baruah (India), and European Domestic Agency Representative Juan Knaster. Luo Delong, head of ITER China, could not be present. Furthest to the right is Eisuke Tada, current Deputy of the Director-General and Head of the Office of the Director-General.