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.
Steering Committee
Current steering committee members
Senior Energy and Climate Change Expert at the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat (UfMS) since November 2022, Marie-Cla...
Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat is a plant geneticist working on biodiversity conservation. She is head of laboratory Biodiversity ...
Wolfgang Cramer is an environmental geographer, global ecologist and research director (CNRS) at France’s Mediterranean In...
Fatima Driouech
Dr Fatima Driouech is an associate professor at the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic. She received a PhD in sciences of th...
Prof. Dr. Marianela Fader is a full professor at the Department of Geography at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München...
Prof. Carlo Giupponi is Full Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics, UNIVE and Dean of the Venice Int...
Joël Guiot is a CNRS researcher emeritus at the European Centre for Research and Training in Environmental Geosciences (CER...
Piero Lionello is full professor of Oceanography and Atmospheric Science at the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy). He is ...
Dr. Manfred A. Lange received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1980. He served as Director of ...
Dr. Ilias Mavroeidis is a Programme Management Officer (Governance) at the UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan Coordina...
Arnau Queralt Bassa is Director at the Advisory Council for Sustainable Development of Catalonia (CADS) and chair of the Eur...
Dr Ethemcan Turhan is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning. His research focuses on political ecology with empir...
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
Dr. Abdelghani Chehbouni the representative in Morocco of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development...
Mr François Guerquin has been the former director of Plan Bleu (2021 - 2024), with expertise in water, biodiversity, and su...
Ines Duarte is a specialist in Climate Finance. She is currently a Project Manager at the Energy and Climate Action Division...
Arnault Graves
Arnault Graves is a North Sea, Chanel Delegate (Délégué Manche, Mer du Nord) at Conservatoire du Littoral. Between Octob...
Samir Grimes
Dr Samir Grimes is a professor at the National High School of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management (Algeria), specialising...
Julien Le Tellier works as Economic Affairs Officer at ESCWA. He was Programme Management Officer in charge of Socio-Economi...
Elen Lemaître-Curri
Elen Lemaître-Curri is a deputy director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (CIHEAM IAMM). She was a d...
Cyril Moulin
Dr Cyril Moulin is the Deputy Director of the Research and Innovation Strategy Department at the MESRI. He was the Deputy Di...
Andrea Toreti
Andrea Torreti main research interests focus on: climate change, variability, extremes, and impacts on agriculture; climate ...
Elena Xoplaki is an expert in Mediterranean climate change. She has conducted analysis on weather extremes (heat waves, floo...