Steering Committee

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.

Current steering committee members

Marie-Claire Boillot

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…

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Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat

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…

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Wolfgang Cramer

Wolfgang Cramer

IMBE / Aix-en-Provence, France

Wolfgang Cramer is an environmental geographer, global ecologist and research director (CNRS) at France’s Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE). He received his academic training at the Universities of…

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Fatima Driouech

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 the universe, environment, and land surfaces from the Polytechnic Institute…

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Marianela Fader

Marianela Fader

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. Her chair has the title “Chair for Physical Geography and Nexus Research”. She…

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Carlo Giupponi

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 Venice International University. His research activity focuses on sustainability science and…

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Joël Guiot

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, France). His main research work concerns the impact of past, present…

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Piero Lionello

Piero Lionello

University of Salento / Lecce, Italy

Piero Lionello is full professor of Oceanography and Atmospheric Science at the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy). He is a climatologist with a focus on the climate of the Mediterranean…

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Manfred A. Lange

Manfred A. Lange

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 the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland,…

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Ilias Mavroeidis

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…

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Arnau Queralt Bassa

Arnau Queralt Bassa

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 European network of advisory councils on the environment and sustainable development…

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Ethemcan Turhan

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…

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Shlomit Paz

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…

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Past steering committee members

Ghani Chehbouni

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…

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François Guerquin

François Guerquin

Plan Bleu / Marseille, France

Mr François Guerquin has been the former director of Plan Bleu (2021 - 2024), with expertise in water, biodiversity, and sustainable development at the international level. His longstanding commitment to…

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Ines Duarte

Ines Duarte

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 of the Secretariat of the Union of the Mediterranean.

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Arnault Graves

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 October 2017 and September 2021 he was Senior Climate Adviser of the…

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Samir Grimes

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 in marine ecology and biodiversity, non-indigenous species, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)…

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Julien Le Tellier

Julien Le Tellier

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-Economic Affairs at the UNEP/MAP – Barcelona Convention Secretariat in Athens, Greece…

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Elen Lemaître-Curri

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 director of Plan Bleu between (09.2017-08.2020). Her expertise covers agricultural, environmental and…

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Cyril Moulin

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 Director of the National Institute for Earth Sciences and…

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Andrea Toreti

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 change adaptation for agriculture. Before joining the JRC in 2013, he was at the:…

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Elena Xoplaki

Elena Xoplaki

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen / Gießen, Germany

Elena Xoplaki is an expert in Mediterranean climate change. She has conducted analysis on weather extremes (heat waves, floods, droughts, etc.) and health impacts, paleoclimatology; climate reconstructions / model comparison,…

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