COMMITTEE CHAIR:

Prof. Costas N. Papanicolas, President Emeritus, The Cyprus Institute;  former Climate Envoy of the Republic of Cyprus; director of the Climate Crisis and Sustainable Development of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. 

MEMBERS

Prof. Alexis Abramson, Dean of the Faculty of Climate and Professor of Climate Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, USA

Ms. Eleni Apegitou, Head, Economic, Climate, and Cultural Diplomacy Dept., Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Republic of Cyprus

Dr. Shaddad Attili, Former Minister of Water & Head of the Palestinian Water Authority, Lead Negotiator on the Water File for Permanent Status Negotiations, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Palestine

Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University; member, Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Director, the Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel (MERCI)

Prof. Joachim von Braun, Distinguished Professor for Economic and Technological Change at Bonn University, Germany; member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina); President, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, The Vatican.

Prof. Bruce Cain, Charles Louis Ducommun Professor of Political Science and Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University, USA

Prof. Costas Cartalis, Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; member, European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change

Dr. Anny Cazenave, member, French Academy of Sciences; ; Laboratoire d’Études en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales), CNES – Toulouse, France

Prof. Philippe Ciais, member, French Academy of Sciences; Associate Director, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), France; Professor, The Cyprus Institute

Prof. Fadi Comair, Member, Academie des Sciences d’outre-mer, France; Senior Executive Advisor to the President of the University of Balamand (UOB), Lebanon;; Chair of the Environmental Coastal Cooperation for Metropolitan Eco-sustainable Development

Prof. Achilleas Emilianides, Professor and Dean, School of Law, University of Nicosia; President of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts

Prof. Tassos Giannitsis, Former Minister of Labor, Foreign Affairs, and Interior, Greece; Professor Emeritus at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece

Prof. Hany Helal, Former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Egypt; Professor, Cairo University, Egypt; Secretary General of the Egypt-Japan Education Partnership (EJEP)

Dr. Hassan Janabi, Former Minister of Water Resources, Iraq; Former Representative of Iraq to The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP), and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Dr. Michel Jarraud, Secretary General Emeritus of The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Switzerland

Dr. Jackie Kado, Executive Director of the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC), Kenya

Dr. Konstantinos Kleovoulou, Director of Research and Innovation, Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, Cyprus

Dr. Ourania Kosti, Executive Director of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Secretariat Office, USA

Prof. Dr. Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business & University of Cambridge; Co-Chair United Nations GSDR, President World Council of Environmental Economists; Chair SDSN Global Climate Hub; Co-Chair SDSN Europe; Director AE4RIA

Prof. Markku Kulmala, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Founder and former Director of Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki, Finland; member of the Academy of Finland

Prof. Jos Lelieveld, Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Max Planck Institute, Germany; Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)

Prof. Stavros Malas, Former Health Minister, Cyprus; President, The Cyprus Institute

Prof. Ernest Moniz, Former Secretary of Energy, USA; Professor Emeritus of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and The American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA

Prof. Lise Øvreås, Former President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; President of European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC); Professor, University of Bergen, Norway

Dr. Janez Potočnik, Former EU Commissioner for Enlargement of Science & Research and for the Environment, Slovenia; Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel (IRP) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Dr. Marwan Al Raggad, Executive Director of the Inter-Islamic Network on Water Resources Development and Management (INWRDAM), Jordan

Prof. Angelo Riccaboni, Former Rector, University of Siena, Italy; Chair of the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA), Spain; Co-Chair of the European chapter of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

Prof. Wim van Saarloos, Former President, European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC) and of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Prof. Emeritus, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, USA; President of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

Prof. Manthos Santamouris, Professor Emeritus, University of Athens, Greece; Scientia Distinguished Professor of High-Performance Architecture, University of New South Wales, Australia

Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Professor Emeritus, Potsdam University, Germany; Founder and Director Emeritus, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Director General of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Prof. Jean Sciare, Director of the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute (CyI)

Prof. Robert-Jan Smits, Former Director-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission; President Emeritus, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Prof. Khaled Toukan, Chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC); Director General of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), Jordan

Mr. Symenon Tsomokos, President and Founder Delphi Economic Forum, Athens, Greece

Prof. Elias Warrak, Professor and President, University of Balamand, Lebanon

Ms. Tamar Zandberg, Former Minister of Environment, Israel; Head of the National Institute for Climate and Environmental Policy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel

Prof. Christos Zerefos, Professor Emeritus, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Secretary General and Head of the Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, the Academy of Athens, Greece

Prof. Waleed Khalil Zubari, Professor and Dean of the Graduate College of Education, Administrative and Technological Studies, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain