Steering Committee

Marie-Claire Boillot

Union for the Mediterranean / Barcelona, Spain

Senior Energy and Climate Change Expert at the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat (UfMS) since November 2022, Marie-Claire Boillat has working in international cooperation for more than 18 years and dedicated her career to strengthen the security and well-being of populations including their resilience and responses to natural and human threats. She worked for more than 12 years in the Middle East (Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan) promoting initiatives and dialogues towards sustainable institutional reforms and renewable energy programs. Prior to joining the UfMS, she was head of the Global Threats Unit at Expertise France in the Peace, Security and Stability Department.

Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat

Saint Joseph University / Beirut, Lebanon

Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat is a plant geneticist working on biodiversity conservation. She is head of laboratory Biodiversity and Functional Genomics at the Faculty of Science at the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut. She is the co-founder and President of “Jouzour Loubnan”, an NGO dealing with forest ecosystem restoration.

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 (IRD). His main research interests include hydrology and the application of remotely sensed data in land-surface-atmosphere models especially in arid semi-arid regions.

Wolfgang Cramer

IMBE / Aix-en-Provence, France

Wolfgang Cramer is an environmental geographer, global ecologist and research director at France’s Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE). He has worked with the IPCC in various capacities since their Second Assessment Report. He is currently acting as co-coordinator of MedECC.

Fatima Driouech

University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) / Benguerir, Morocco

Prof. Fatima Driouech the Executive Coordinator of the Adaptation Metrics and Techniques Cluster at the UM6P. She is Vice-Chair of Working Group I of the IPCC and Co-Chair of the Focus Area I of the Commission Climatology (World Meteorological Organization). She is the MedECC co-coordinator.

Marianela Fader

Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) / Munich, Germany

Dr. Marianela Fader is the deputy director if the ICWRGC. She leads studies in the area of climate change impacts on food security, hydrology and irrigation water use (mainly on a global or large scale and using process-based modelling).

Carlo Giupponi

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 VIU. His research activity focuses on sustainability science and global change, with specific interests for valuation methods, scenario analysis and the integrated assessment of natural resources.

François Guerquin

Plan Bleu / Marseille, France

Mr François Guerquin is the director of Plan Bleu. He has an expertise on water, biodiversity and sustainable development at international level. He was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB), before becoming the Science-Policy Director of the Wetlands Ramsar Convention.

Joël Guiot

CEREGE / Aix-en-Provence, France

Joël Guiot is a CNRS researcher emeritus at the European Centre for Research and Training in Environmental Geosciences (CEREGE). His main research work concerns the impact of past, present and future climate change on Mediterranean ecosystems. He is a lead author for the IPCC special report, SR1.5 and the MedECC co-coordinator.

Piero Lionello

University of Salento / Lecce, Italy

Prof Piero Lionello is a physician specialised in atmospheric physics and oceanography. He is the chairman of the MedCLIVAR (Mediterranean CLImate VARiability) network, has been member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ECMWF (European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast). He has been a leading author of the IPCC WG2-AR6 chapters devoted to "Eurpope" and "The Mediterranean"

Maria Carmen Llasat

University of Barcelona / Barcelona, Spain

Prof. María Carmen Llasat is a physician. Her research focuses on the study of natural risks of meteorological origin and the impact of climate change on them, as well as the improvement of citizen awareness and resilience in the face of extreme events.She is the coordinator of the Meterology Research Group of the University of Barcelona.

Manfred A. Lange

The Cyprus Institute / Nicosia, Cyprus

Dr Manfred A. Lange was the founding Director of the Energy, Environment and Water Research Center at the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus (2007-2015). He is the Director of the Future Earth MENA Regional Center. His expertise includes the climate change impacts on water and energy security, renewable energies, and energy and water use efficiency.

Ilias Mavroeidis

UNEP/MAP-Barcelona Convention Secretariat / Athens, Greece

Dr. Ilias Mavroeidis is a Programme Management Officer (Governance) at the UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan Coordinating Unit - Barcelona Convention Secretariat. He is a chemical engineer with a PhD in atmospheric pollution and has a long experience on environmental management and technology, both from a scientific and a policy perspective.

Arnau Queralt Bassa

Advisory Council for the Sustainable Development of Catalonia (CADS) / Barcelona, Spain

Arnau Queralt Bassa is Director of CADS since October 2011. Since 2017, he is the Secretary of the Interministerial Commission for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Catalonia and, from 2020, member of the Sectorial Commission for the 2030 Agenda in Spain on behalf of the Government of Catalonia.

Ethemcan Turhan

University of Groningen / Groningen, The Netherlands

Dr Ethemcan Turhan is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning. His research focuses on political ecology with empirical attention to environmental conflicts, energy infrastructures, social movements, and climate mobilities mainly in Türkiye, the larger Middle East, and the Mediterranean.

Shlomit Paz

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 climatologist and environmental health researcher who investigates the impacts of climate change on the human health and security.