The following group of scientists currently acts as Steering Committee for MedECC. All members are present in personal capacity – they do not represent any institution or country. The Committee will be further extended to ensure better thematic and geographic coverage of Mediterranean environmental science. Wolfgang Cramer, Fatima Driouech and Joël Guiot currently act as coordinators of MedECC.
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Steering Committee
Current steering committee members
Union for the Mediterranean / Barcelona, Spain
Senior Energy and Climate Change Expert at the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat (UfMS) since November 2022, Marie-Cla...
Saint Joseph University / Beirut, Lebanon
Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat is a plant geneticist working on biodiversity conservation. She is head of laboratory Biodiversity ...
IMBE / Aix-en-Provence, France
Wolfgang Cramer is an environmental geographer, global ecologist and research director (CNRS) at France’s Mediterranean In...
Fatima Driouech
University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) / Benguerir, Morocco
Dr Fatima Driouech is an associate professor at the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic. She received a PhD in sciences of th...
Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) / Munich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Marianela Fader is a full professor at the Department of Geography at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München...
Ca’ Foscari University (UNIVE) and Venice International University (VIU) / Venice, Italy
Prof. Carlo Giupponi is Full Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics, UNIVE and Dean of the Venice Int...
CEREGE / Aix-en-Provence, France
Joël Guiot is a CNRS researcher emeritus at the European Centre for Research and Training in Environmental Geosciences (CER...
University of Salento / Lecce, Italy
Piero Lionello is full professor of Oceanography and Atmospheric Science at the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy). He is ...
The Cyprus Institute / Nicosia, Cyprus
Dr. Manfred A. Lange received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1980. He served as Director of ...
UNEP/MAP-Barcelona Convention Secretariat / Athens, Greece
Dr. Ilias Mavroeidis is a Programme Management Officer (Governance) at the UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan Coordina...
Advisory Council for the Sustainable Development of Catalonia (CADS) / Barcelona, Spain
Arnau Queralt Bassa is Director at the Advisory Council for Sustainable Development of Catalonia (CADS) and chair of the Eur...
University of Groningen / Groningen, The Netherlands
Dr Ethemcan Turhan is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning. His research focuses on political ecology with empir...
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa / Haifa, Israel
Prof. Shlomit Paz is the Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa. She is a ...
Past steering committee members
Ghani Chehbouni
Mohammed VI University Polytechnic (UM6P) / Benguerir, Morocco
Dr. Abdelghani Chehbouni the representative in Morocco of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development...
Plan Bleu / Marseille, France
Mr François Guerquin has been the former director of Plan Bleu (2021 - 2024), with expertise in water, biodiversity, and su...
Union for the Mediterranean / Barcelona, Spain
Ines Duarte is a specialist in Climate Finance. She is currently a Project Manager at the Energy and Climate Action Division...
Arnault Graves
Conservatoire du Littoral / Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Arnault Graves is a North Sea, Chanel Delegate (Délégué Manche, Mer du Nord) at Conservatoire du Littoral. Between Octob...
Samir Grimes
National High School of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management / Algiers, Algeria
Dr Samir Grimes is a professor at the National High School of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management (Algeria), specialising...
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) / Beirut, Lebanon
Julien Le Tellier works as Economic Affairs Officer at ESCWA. He was Programme Management Officer in charge of Socio-Economi...
Elen Lemaître-Curri
CIHEAM / Montpellier, France
Elen Lemaître-Curri is a deputy director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (CIHEAM IAMM). She was a d...
Cyril Moulin
Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) / Paris, France
Dr Cyril Moulin is the Deputy Director of the Research and Innovation Strategy Department at the MESRI. He was the Deputy Di...
Andrea Toreti
European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) / Ispra, Italy
Andrea Torreti main research interests focus on: climate change, variability, extremes, and impacts on agriculture; climate ...
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen / Gießen, Germany
Elena Xoplaki is an expert in Mediterranean climate change. She has conducted analysis on weather extremes (heat waves, floo...