Biographical Note

TADEUSZ BACHLEDA-CURUS (POLAND) ELECTED PRESIDENT

OF SEABED COUNCIL FOR 2001

(Received from the International Seabed Authority.)

KINGSTON, 3 July -– Tadeusz Bachleda-Curus, who was elected today as President of the Council of the International Seabed Authority, is Under-Secretary and Principal Geologist of the State in the Ministry of Environment of Poland.

Mr. Bachleda-Curus was President of the Authority’s Assembly in 1998.  He, thus, becomes the first person to have headed both of the main intergovernmental organs of the Authority.  From 1997 to 1999, he was Chairman of the Council of the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization, a pioneer seabed investor registered with the Authority.  The Interoceanmetal Joint Organization is composed of Bulgaria, Cuba, Czech Republic, Poland, Russian Federation, and the Slovak Republic.

He was Assistant Professor at the University of Mining and Metallurgy, Cracow, Poland, from 1979 to 1980, from 1984 to 1985, and since 1988.  He was professor titular from 1980 to 1983, and again from 1986 to 1987, at the Instituto Technológico de Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico.  He has been a United Nations expert in geology since 1989.

Mr. Bachleda-Curus studied at the University of Mining and Metallurgy, Cracow (1964-1970), where he received a Master of Science degree in geophysics prospecting and, in 1978, a doctorate in the geology of deposits.

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