Speakers & Conveners

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
  • HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
  • H.E. Dr Maria Panayiotou, Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment
  • H.E. Mr. George Papanastasiou, Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry
  • H.E. Dr Charalampos Theopemptou, Member of the House of Representatives of Cyprus, Chairperson of the House Standing Committee on the Environment
  • H.E. Dr. Nasser Yassin, Minister of Environment, Lebanon; formerly Professor of Policy and Planning at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  • 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
  • Mrs. Carol Chouchani Cherfane, Director of Arab Centre for Climate Change Policies, Cluster Lead, Climate Change and Natural Resource Sustainability, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), Lebanon
  • Prof. Loukas G. Christophorou, Academy of Athens
  • Dr Philip Ciais, French Academy of Sciences, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), France
  • Prof. Louis Dominici, President of Académie des Sciences D'Outre-Mer (ASOM), France
  • Prof. Steven Griffiths, Senior Vice President for Research and Development and Professor of Practice, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates
  • 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
  • Prof. Hany Helal, Professor Cairo Faculty of Engineering and former Minister of Higher Education and State Minister for Scientific Research, Egypt
  • Dr Hassan Janabi, Former Water Minister and Ambassador to FAO of Iraq
  • Dr Nicolas Jarraud, Founding Member of the Leadership Council of SDSN Cyprus
  • Prof. Costas Kadis, Professor and Acting Dean of School of Health Sciences, Frederick University and former Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, Cyprus
  • Mr. Alain Meyssonnier, President of the Mediterranean Water Institute (IME), France
  • 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. Nicos Nicolaides, Mayor of Limassol, Cyprus
  • Prof. Brian Norton, Former Head of Energy Research at Tyndall National Institute, Former President of the Dublin Institute of Technology
  • 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
  • Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Professor at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), USA
  • Prof. Jean Sciare, Director of the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute
  • Prof. Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, Professor, University of Athens, Former President of the European Court of Human Rights, Greece
  • Dr Rolf Strauch, Chief Economist and Management Board Member at the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)
  • Dr Khaled Toukan, Chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission and Former Minister of Energy, Jordan
  • Dr Tamar Zandberg, Director National Institute for Climate Policy Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev & Former Minister of Environmental Protection, Israel
  • Prof. Waleed Khalil Zubari, Dean of College of Graduate Studies, Professor of Water Resources Management at Arabian Gulf University (AGU) & Director, French Arabian Business School, Bahrain.

Conveners

  • Prof. Nikolas Bakirtzis, Director of Andreas Pittas Art Characterization (APAC) Laboratories & Associate Professor, The Cyprus Institute
  • 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. Fadi Comair, Professor, Energy, Environment & Water Research Center (EEWRC), The Cyprus Institute
  • 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
  • Prof. Achilles Emilianides, Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts & Professor and Dean of the School of Law of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Prof. Thanasis Hadzilacos, Adjunct Professor at The Cyprus Institute
  • Prof. Sotiris Kalogirou, Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts Professor, Cyprus University of Technology
  • Dr Constantinos Kounnamas, Director, Nature Conservation Unit, Frederick University
  • 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
  • Mr. Fabio Maria Montagnino, Senior Research Affiliate, The Cyprus Institute, Chair of the Governing Board, EIT Climate KIC
  • Prof. Stavros Photiou, Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts & Professor, University of Cyprus
  • Dr Yiannis Toumazis, Director of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Former Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus
  • Prof. Theodoros Zachariadis, Professor and Interim Director of the Energy, Environment & Water Research Center (EEWRC), The Cyprus Institute
  • Prof. Stavros Zenios, Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts & Professor, University of Cyprus
  • Dr George Zittis, Associate Research Scientist, Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute

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Organizers

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