1.INTRODUCTION

Director, Plan Bleu (2017-2020), France
Deputy Director, CIHEAM-IAMM, France (since 2020)
Elen Lemaître-Curri is an agricultural and environmental economist, specialised in public policies. After graduating from the Ecole nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts, she joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on land tenure policies in Africa, and the FAO Investment Center-World Bank cooperation program to design, support and evaluate projects in about 20 countries around the World. She was then successively deputy head of office for Environmental Economics and Financial Instruments, and head of office for Global Public Goods in the French General Commissariat for sustainable development, designing, assessing and negotiating economic instruments for climate change, biodiversity, ocean and forest policies. She joined Plan Bleu, as a director, in 2017. Since September 2020, she is deputy director of CIHEAM-IAMM, an international organisation focusing on sustainable agriculture, rural development and food security cooperation, research and education in Mediterranean countries.

Full professor of Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
He is a climatologist with a focus on the climate of the Mediterranean Region, its past and future evolution, impacts of climate change and extreme events. He is the chairman of the MedCLIVAR (Mediterranean CLImate VARiability) network, and has been member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ECMWF (European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast) and chairman of the International Scientific Steering Committee of the HyMeX project (Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean eXperiment). He has edited three books on the Climate of the Mediterranean Region, several special issues of international scientific journals, and organized many conferences and meetings on related topics. http://www.dsm.unile.it/~plionello/index.htm

Science officer, MedECC.
Dr Katarzyna Marini is involved in the MedECC since its creation in 2015. Previously she was a scientific manager of the Laboratory of Excellence OT-Med in France, which is a regional network on laboratories focused on climate change and natural hazards. She has a PhD and research experience (13 peer-reviewed articles) in the field of marine biology.

Researcher, CEA, France
Cyril Moulin has a PhD in Oceanography and Meteorology from Sorbonne University (Paris, France) and he is researcher at CEA since 1998. He used satellites to study atmospheric aerosols and marine phytoplankton. He has been director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environment Sciences (LSCE) and is now deputy director of the National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy (INSU) at CNRS and coordinator of the MISTRALS research program on the impacts of global change in the Mediterranean.
2.DRIVERS

Associate Professor within Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Italy.
His main research activities concern pastures management and characterization, relationships between pastoral and woody resources, establishment and management of turfgrass, cover crops in vineyards and revegetation of disturbed areas, habitat improvements for faunistic purposes. https://www.dagri.unifi.it

Senior scientist, INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment), France.
Dr Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg has many years of experience in forest entomology, pest characterization, and phylogenetics, specialized in insect molecular ecology. Her research focuses mainly on molecular systematic, phylogeny and phylogeography of invasive insects and she was involved in different national and EU projects. She is also the head of the Research Unit of Forest Zoology (INRAE URZF) since 2018. https://www.inrae.fr/en/about-us

Senior Researcher at the IRBIM-CNR, Ancona, Italy
Reference scientist of IRBIM for the strategic area ‘Global Changes’
Chair of the CIESM Committee C6 Coastal Systems and Marine Policy
His Current areas of research are invasion biology and ecology of fishes, and biodiversity changes in coastal marine environments and participatory action research. His scientific production presents an interdisciplinary spectrum of studies spanning from theoretical to applied aspects of marine bio-invasions and climate change impacts in the Mediterranean area. The IRBIM-CNR institute: https://www.cnr.it/en/institute/122 Active EU projects: https://mpa-engage.interreg-med.eu

Sophie Bastin is a scientist working in France at IPSL/LATMOS (http://www.latmos.ipsl.fr), with research experience in mesoscale and regional atmospheric dynamics, boundary-layer and cloud processes, land surface/atmosphere interactions and climate variability at regional scale. She is involved in both modelling (CORDEX, Convection-permitting modelling for climate research) and observations communities (CALIPSO/CLOUDSAT/Earthcare; ACTRIS; GNSS4SWEC, SIRTA). She participated in several international projects (AMMA, Hymex, EUCP among others) and produced and analysed WRF and multi-model regional climate simulations over Africa and Europe. Her expertise in high-resolution modeling (convective-permitting) and remote sensing observations of clouds is particularly relevant to better understand the role of mesoscale processes over complex terrain in mediterranean climate variability. IPSL official page

Assistant-Professor in Ecology and Animal Biology, University of Carthage, Sciences Faculty of Bizerte, Tunisia.
He is doing research in Entomofauna Biodiversity, Animal Ecology and Ecotoxicology. He is a founding member of the Tunisian – French International Joint Laboratory (LMI COSYS-MED: Contaminants and Ecosystems of South Mediterranean Sea). His research program investigates topics at biodiversity (entomofauna and other) and the impacts of contaminants on environment and biota. Scholar Google Profile researchgate Profile

Lorenzo BRILLI
Dr. Lorenzo Brilli, Ph.D. in agrometeorology and ecophysiology of agricultural and forestry systems, is a research scientist at National Research Council of Italy – Institute of BioEconomy. Scientific expertise concerns surface exchange measurement between biosphere and atmosphere, climate change impacts on agriculture and forestry systems, biogeochemical and remote sensing modeling. He is involved in several national and international (SMARTSOIL, MACSUR, AgMiP, LIFEA2C, PASTORALP) projects.
www.ibe.cnr.it
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Emma CEBRIAN
Dr. Emma Cebrian is a marine biologist (Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC), Catalonia, Spain). Her research seeks to apply marine community ecology to the conservation and restoration of Mediterranean marine ecosystems. Examples include incorporating an understanding of biodiversity patterns, species interactions, habitat-species linkages and quantifying the cumulative impacts of multiple stressors on marine ecosystems. Her research interests are Marine Biology, Biodiversity, Global Change, Invasive species, Conservation Biology, Benthic marine communities
Instagram: @marineforests; Twitter: @marineforests

Hanène Chaabane s a permanent member of the Pest Control and Integrated Protection in Agriculture (BPIA) laboratory and of the LMI Naila. She is responsible for pesticide data at the OMERE observatory in Kamech with Olivier Grünberger. Hanene Chaabane holds a diploma in Agronomy, specialty Plant protection from National Institute of Agronomy, then a DEA diploma (Master Degree) in Agronomic Sciences from ENSAIA – INPL Nancy France. Since her thesis, defended in December 2005, her main research focus has been on pesticides in relation to phytosanitary practices and their effects on the water and soil environment. She has been associate professor in Pesticide Sciences and Internship Director since May 2018.

Sílvia Coelho is a PhD Student at the Department of Environment and Planning and at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her main activities include the study of atmospheric processes and phenomena, such as climate change, air pollution, and their influence on human health, through the application of meteorological and air quality modelling tools at regional and urban scales. www.cesam.ua.pt/silviacoelho; https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/B91C-66ED-25BF

Renato COLUCCI
MaSc in Geology with a PhD in Environmental Science and glaciology. Permanent staff from 2001 at the Marine Science Institute (climate and paleoclimate research group) of the italian National Research Council (CNR), since November 2020 he is a scientist at the italian Institute of Polar Sciences, CNR. He is also Adjunct Professor in glaciology at the University of Trieste (Italy). The main part of his research activity is devoted to the study of mountain and polar glacial and periglacial environments and their interactions with climate.
https://www.isp.cnr.it/index.php/en/about-us/staff/item/402-colucci-renato-r
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Dalhousie University, Canada.
Her research is focused on (past and future) climate and ocean extreme events in regional/large scale. Currently, she is investigating the underlying mechanisms of global marine heatwaves. During her PhD she worked on the detection, characterization and uncertainties of 21st century marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea, using an ensemble of Regional Climate System Models. Her background is in physical oceanography but she is also interested in the impacts of extreme events on fisheries and (marine) ecosystems and on possible solutions for their mitigation. Twitter / Linkedin

Department of Agriculture, food, environment and forestry, University of Florence, Italy
Her main field of expertise is precision agriculture, impacts of climate change on agro-ecosystems, adaptation and mitigation strategies, monitoring of pastoral resources. She has published more than 40 papers on scientific journals with IF, ISI Scopus, WOS (Scopus-H index: 9, Google Scholar H-Index: 12), and actively cooperated (as scientific responsible and/or project manager) to more than 30 international, national and regional funded research projects

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rhode Island, USA
Donna Dimarchopoulou holds a BS (Biology), MS (Hydrobiology-Aquaculture), and PhD degree (Fisheries Biology and Management), all from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently, she works as a . She is interested in the effects of fishing and environmental changes on marine ecosystems, focusing on marine fisheries, ecosystem modeling, stock assessments, marine protected areas, and the benefits of fishing restrictions on marine populations. Google Scholar Profile http://ahumphrieslab.com/dd-page

Laboratoire Des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE, France)
Specialist in geochemical tracers modelling, in the global ocean and the Mediterranean Sea; has participated to past, modern and future climate modelling studies in the Mediterranean Sea. He is the Coordinator of the “pollution and Contaminants” action of the MISTRALS program.

Senior Researcher and Professor of Marine Microbiology and Blue Biotechnology, (INSTM – LR16INSTM05, Tunisia)
She is currently Chairwoman of Marine Microbiology and Biotechnology Committee C4 CIESM (www.ciesm.org) and the Coordinator of more than 40 projects on health bio-monitoring bioprocessing and aquatic biotechnology since 1995. She is author of more than 200 international or indexed publications.

Senior Associate Fellow in Law, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dr. Antonietta Elia is specialized in International Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and EU Law, her academic and professional interests include the relationships between human rights and environment.a former Candidate to the Italian Seat of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (2019); Senior Associate Fellow in Law, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain, 2014-); Visiting Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Interamerican Academy of Human Rights, Saltillo (Mexico, 2020-); External Associate Legal Expert European Asylum Support Office (EASO, 2020-); Council of Europe Selected Legal Expert for European Human Rights Standards Implementation Projects in Armenia, Turkey, and Moldova (2018-); UNAIDS Expert Practitioner on Human Rights and HIV (2018-); Visiting Professor of International Law and Human Rights, China Youth of Political Studies, Beijing (China, 2016-2017).

Researcher, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Elena holds is a chemical engineer with a PhD in Energy Planning and Renewables. Her main fields of expertise are focused on climate change impact assessment, adaptation, and mitigation, energy planning, air pollution, cost-benefit analyses of environmental measures, decision-aid. She was an IPCC Focal Point for Greece from 2010 to 2018, and a Lead Author in the IPCC AR5 and AR6. She is the project leader in many national and European research projects on climate change and clean energy. www.noa.gr http://www.meteo.noa.gr/cv/Georgopoulou_cv_en.pdf

Senior Researcher, Zoological Station Anton Dohrn, Italy
Her research focuses on 1) understanding the processes that shape marine communities exploring species interactions and the impacts of human uses on marine ecosystems; and 2) developing marine conservation planning approaches and the spatial prioritization of conservation actions in the marine environment and across realms. She is an honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia.
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Postdoctoral researcher, Complutense Universiy of Madrid, Spain.
He finished his PhD thesis in 2018 on the analysis of cyclones with tropical characteristics both in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea and their relationship with Anthropogenic Climate Change. He is now researching on medicanes, renewable energy and on the role of extratropical cyclones on the surface’s response of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings.
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CNRS Research Director Emeritus, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO), Marseille, France
Her skills are in the domain of marine chemistry, biogeochemistry of carbon cycle and anthropogenic impact. She led the environmental chemistry team of M.I.O (Aix-Marseille University) (2011-2017) and participated in the coordination of several projects in the Mediterranean (FP4-CANIGO, FP6-SESAME, ANR-IBISCUS, FP7-NEXOS). Part of her recent activity has focused on the identification of sources of hydrocarbons in the marine environment and their detection by analysis of their fluorescence properties, using underwater gliders equipped with optical sensors (MIO official page).

Olivier Grünberger has been working for ORSTOM/IRD since 30 years. He is a hydro-geochemist specialized in water and soils solutes dynamics and agricultural pollutants contamination processes. He has worked in Mexico and Thailand on saline soils and he is presently posted in Tunisia where he focuses on pesticide contamination processes in rainfed and irrigated fields and co-manages OMERE’s site observatory in Cap Bon peninsula. https://www.umr-lisah.fr/?q=fr/content/o-grunberger https://www.obs-omere.org/fr/sites/kamech

Dr. sc. Ivan Güttler from the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service in Zagreb, Croatia. His main areas of expertise are regional climate modelling and atmospheric boundary layer studies. For the last 11 years, he has been contributing to several national and EU projects on climate change and climate change adaptation activities. http://meteo.hr/


Senior research scientist, Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Mallorca (COB-IEO). His main line of research is the study of marine climate variability with special focus on the Mediterranean and on the interactions with biological processes. His research is mainly based on numerical modelling and on the analysis of climatic databases. In that framework he has developed several observation based products for climate studies on hydrography, sea level and waves. He has worked on ~40 international and national projects and is co-author of more than 70 papers in peer reviewed journals. At present he is member of the steering committe of MedCORDEX and CLIVAR-Spain. http://www.ba.ieo.es/es/personal/12-contacts/116-biel-jorda-sanchez http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2782-8727