Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Relations
Lantheus
Ira N. Goldman is Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Relations, Lantheus Holdings. He is Co-Chair of the Isotope Supply Committee, Council on Radioisotopes and Radiopharmaceuticals (CORAR) and Vice-Chairman of the Security of Supply Working Group, Nuclear Medicine Europe.
Mr. Goldman is responsible for development and execution of Lantheus’s strategy and actions for public and healthcare policy, including legislative strategy and interactions with the U.S. Congress as well as relationships with Executive Branch agencies. He coordinates Lantheus’s involvement with trade associations, business and regional advocacy groups and medical societies. He also interacts with U.S. and foreign governments and international organizations regarding medical isotope production and supply matters.
Mr Goldman was Scientific Officer in the IAEA Department of Nuclear Energy, Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology dealing with research reactor issues, including technical and policy matters. These activities covered conversion of research reactor fuel and medical isotope production targets from HEU to low-enriched uranium (LEU), research reactor fuel repatriation programmes, and research reactor fuel cycle economic analysis. Mr. Goldman was responsible for a number of IAEA activities related to the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) and for planning, preparation, conduct and follow-up of international scientific meetings and Coordinated Research Projects (CRPs) involving scientific institutions of developed and developing countries.
Mr Goldman was Science Attache, U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Austria (1996-2004), from the Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). He interacted with three major IAEA programmes, including radioisotopes and nuclear medicine, nuclear energy, waste management and the fuel cycle and technical cooperation. He was responsible for overseeing $20 million in U.S. extrabudgetary contributions to the IAEA and for interactions with senior U.S., DOE, IAEA, and foreign government officials.
Mr Goldman also worked at U.S. DOE, Washington, D.C., in the Office of Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, International Safeguards Division (1992-1996) as coordinator for IAEA activities and served as the DOE representative to the U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation (NPT) Review and Extension Conference (1995). He also worked at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (now U.S. Department of State, 1985-1992); and as Senior Policy Analyst at the Meridian Corporation (now Dyncorp, 1981-1985); and at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress (1980-1981).
Mr Goldman earned a Master of Arts in International Affairs (with distinction) from the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC in 1980, including study at the Johns Hopkins Centre for European Studies in Bologna, Italy (1978-1979). Mr Goldman earned a Bachelor of Arts (with honours) in History and was Phi Beta Kappa at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut in 1978.