Speakers
Please note that names marked with an asterisk (*) indicate tentative acceptance
H.E. Dr Nikos Christodoulides
President of the Republic of Cyprus
H.E. Ms. Annita Demetriou
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Cyprus
H.E. Dr. Nasser Yassin
Minister of Environment, Lebanon; formerly Professor of Policy and Planning at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon
H.E. Dr Maria Panayiotou
Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, Cyprus
H.E. Mr. George Papanastasiou
Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, Cyprus
H.E. Marilena Raouna
Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Cyprus
Prof. Maamoun Abdulkarim
Chair, Department of History and Islamic Civilization in the University of Sharja in the UAE; Director Emeritus General for Antiquities and Museums of Syria
H.E. Wael Aboulmagd
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Legal Affairs; Special Representative of the COP27 President; Head of the Egyptian negotiating delegation to the COP28
H.E. Ms Charafat Afailal
International Expert on Water Resources, Former Minister in charge of water, Morocco
Prof. Mansour Almazroui
Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research (CECCR), King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Thomas Andersson
President of the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED), Sweden; Director, Organisation for Quality and Innovation Strategies (Qualies), Oman
Ms Eleni Apeyitou
Head, Economic, Climate, and Cultural Diplοmacy Dept., Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Cyprus
H.E. Mr. Olivier Poivre d’Arvor
French Ambassador for the Poles and Maritime Issues
Prof. Zvi-Ben Avraham
Professor of Geophysics at Tel Aviv University, Israeli Academy of Sciences, Israel
Prof. Dominique Barjot
Université Paris-Sorbonne; Académie des Sciences d’Outre Mer, France
Prof. Nikolas Bakirtzis
Director of Andreas Pittas Art Characterization (APAC) Laboratories & Associate Professor, The Cyprus Institute
H.E. Gideon Behar
Ambassador, Special Envoy for Climate Change and Sustainability, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Adv. Gidon Bromberg
Israeli Director, EcoPeace
Dr Ann Bourges
Conservation Scientist in the Center of Research and Restoration of Collection in France (C2RMF), General Secretary of ICOMOS France
Prof. Hans Bruyninckx
University of Antwerp, Belgium; Member of the UN International Resource Panel; former Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
Prof. Constantinos Cartalis
European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change; Professor of Environmental and Climate Physics at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Prof. Loukas G. Christophorou
Academy of Athens & Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts
Dr Odysseas Christou
Associate Professor, Department of Law, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Dr Philippe Ciais
French Academy of Sciences, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), France
Prof. Fadi Comair
Professor, Energy, Environment & Water Research Center (EEWRC), The Cyprus Institute
Prof. Costas P. Constantinou
Professor of Science & Education, University of Cyprus
Prof. Bassam Dally
Professor, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Technology, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Prof. Andreas Demetriou
Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts & Former Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus
Prof. Kyriakos Demetriou
Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts & Professor, University of Cyprus
Dr Charles Ellinas
CEO, EC Cyprus Natural Hydrocarbons Company Ltd (eCNHC)
Prof. Achilles Emilianides
President, Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts & Professor and Dean of the School of Law of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Dr Robin Fears
Advisor to the InterAcademy Partnership
Prof. Diana Francis
Assistant Professor of Earth Science, Khalifa University, UAE
Dr Nestor Fylaktos
Research Scientist, The Cyprus Institute
Thodoris Georgakopoulos
Journalist and Author; Founding Member & Εditorial Director of diaNEOsis, Greece
Prof. Steven Griffiths
Professor and Vice Chancellor at the American University of Sharjah, UAE
Prof. Panos Hadjinicolaou
Associate Professor, The Cyprus Institute
Prof. Thanasis Hadzilacos
Adjunct Professor at The Cyprus Institute
Prof. Mona Haggag
Professor of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria, Egypt. President of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria
Dr Tareq Abu Hamed
Executive Director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel
Prof. Raphael J. Heffron
Professor for Global Energy Law & Sustainability at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Prof. Hany Helal
Professor, Cairo Faculty of Engineering and former Minister of Higher Education and State Minister for Scientific Research, Egypt
Dr Ibrahim Hoteit
Professor in the Earth Sciences and Engineering program and the Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences program at KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Mr Nikolaos Isaris
Head of Representation (Chargé d'affaires), European Commission Representation in Cyprus
H.E. Dr Hassan Janabi
Former Minister of Water Resources of Iraq, Former Ambassador to UN Agencies in Rome, Tokyo & Ankara
Dr Nicolas Jarraud
Senior Specialist, Global Water Partnership, Sweden
Dr Issam Juha
Director of the Centre for Cultural Heritage Preservation and a former deputy mayor of Bethlehem
Prof. Costas Kadis
Professor and Acting Dean of School of Health Sciences, Frederick University and former Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, Cyprus
Dr Anthi Kaldeli
Archaeological Officer, Dept of Antiquities, Cyprus; ICCROM Council Member
Prof. Ioannis Karakassis
Director of Marine Ecology Lab, Biology Department, University of Crete, Greece
Dr Aris Karageorgis
Research Director, Institute of Oceanography of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)
Dr Maria Karamanof
President of the Chamber of Environment and Sustainability, Honorary Vice-President of the Council of State, Greece
Mr Kyriacos Kokkinos
CEO, Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation; former Minister for Research, Innovation (R&I) and Digital Policy, Republic of Cyprus
Prof. Constantinos Kounnamas
Director, Nature Conservation Unit, Frederick University
Mrs Anna Kyprianou
Head of the Foreign and European Affairs Committee of the 6th House of Youth Representatives Cyprus
Prof. Manfred A. Lange
Director of the Future Earth MENA Regional Center & The Cyprus Institute
Prof. Jos Lelieveld
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz & Professor at the University of Mainz and at The Cyprus Institute
Prof. Stavros Malas
President of The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Prof. Markku Kulmala
Professor of Aerosol and Environmental Physics (University of Helsinki) and Academy Professor and Academician of Science (Academy of Finland)
Dr Elise Machline
Director of the Center for Climate Change Policy and Research, Israel
Dr Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cyprus
Prof. Isaac A. Meir
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel
Dr Theodoulos Mesimeris
Director, Department of Environment, Cyprus
Mr. Alain Meyssonnier
President of the Mediterranean Water Institute (IME), France
Prof. Andreas Milidonis
Professor, Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Cyprus
Prof. Ernest Moniz
Co-Chair and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and President and CEO of the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI); Cecil Ida Green Professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and former Secretary of Energy, USA
Mr. Fabio Maria Montagnino
Senior Research Affiliate, The Cyprus Institute, Chair of the Governing Board, EIT Climate KIC
Prof. Brian Norton
Former Head of Energy Research at Tyndall National Institute; Former President of the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Prof. Naïm Ouaini
Advisor to the Minister of Education and Higher Education, Advisor to the Minister of Public Health, Professor of Chemistry, the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Lebanon
Prof. Costas N. Papanicolas
Institute Professor & President Emeritus at The Cyprus Institute; the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts
Prof. Stavros Photiou
Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts & Professor, University of Cyprus
Natasa Pilides
Former Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, Cyprus
Dr Andreas Poullikkas
Chairman of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA)
Prof. Angelo Riccaboni
Professor at the University of Sienna; Chair of the Fundación PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area, Italy
Prof. Didier Roux
French Academy of Sciences and Academy of Technology, Chair of the Board of Directors, The Cyprus Institute
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
Professor at Columbia University and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Dr Roberto San José García
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Prof. Jean Sciare
Director of the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute
Dr. Manal Shehabi
Applied Development Economist, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Dr Annette Scheersoi
Vice Rector for Sustainability, University of Bonn, Germany
Prof. Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos
Professor, University of Athens, Former President of the European Court of Human Rights, Greece
Ms Eleni Sophocleous
Assistant Vice President of Policy and Internal Communications, The Cyprus Institute
Prof. Gera Stenchikov
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Thanh-Tâm Lê
Director, Impact and Performance, transformation at national and subnational levels at Climate-KIC, Netherlands
Mrs Antonia Theodosiou
Commissioner for the Environment of Cyprus
H.E. Dr Charalampos Theopemptou
Member of the House of Representatives of Cyprus; Chairperson of the House Standing Committee on the Environment
Prof. Stavros Thomadakis
University of Athens, Greece
Dr Marlene Tomaszkiewicz
Sustainable Development Officer, ESCWA - Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, UN
Dr Khaled Toukan
Chairman of Jordan Atomic Energy Commission and Director of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) Centre
Prof. Charidemos Tsoukas
Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus; Corresponding Member of Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts
Mr Kurt Vandenberghe
Director General of DG CLIMA, European Commission
Mrs Androulla Vassiliou
Former European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
Mr Jacob Waslander
Envoy to the Middle East and North Africa for Water, Energy and Food, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
Prof. Theodoros Zachariadis
Professor and Interim Director of the Energy, Environment & Water Research Center (EEWRC), The Cyprus Institute
Dr Tamar Zandberg
Director National Institute for Climate Policy Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev & Former Minister of Environmental Protection, Israel
Prof. Stavros Zenios
Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts & Professor of Finance and Management Science, Durham University and University of Cyprus, and Non-Resident Fellow at Bruegel.
Dr George Zittis
Associate Research Scientist, Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute
