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Circle the Med

The Mediterranean Online Forum 2020

9-13 November

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Principal Advisor to the Prime Minister for energy, climate, environment and circular economy, Honorary Director, European Commission, Mandated by DG ENV for Circular Economy and Insularity

Spyridon Flogaitis

Director of the EPLO and President of its Board of Directors

Margaritis Schinas

Vice-president in the Von der Leyen Commission with the portfolio of European Commissioner for Promoting the European Way of Life

Panagiotis Theodorikakos

Minister of Interior, Hellenic Republic

Adonis Georgiadis

Minister of Development and Investments, Hellenic Republic

Kostas Karamanlis

Minister of Infrastructure & Transport, Hellenic Republic

Minister of Culture, Hellenic Republic

Ioannis Plakiotakis

Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, Hellenic Republic

Christos Staikouras

Minister of Finance, Hellenic Republic

Theocharis Theocharis

Minister of Tourism, Hellenic Republic

Miltiadis Varvitsiotis

Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic

Kęsţutis Sadauskas

Director for Circular Economy and Green Growth, European Commission

Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean

Giannis Kefalogiannis

Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Hellenic Republic

George Koumoutsakos

Alternate Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy, Hellenic Republic

Georgios Patoulis

Governor of Attica

Dimitrios Oikonomou

Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy, Hellenic Republic

Konstantinos Skrekas

Deputy Minister for Rural Development and Food, Hellenic Republic

Christiana Kalogirou

General Secretary of the Aegean and Island Policy, Hellenic Republic

Konstantinos Agrapidas

Director general of Occupational Health, Safety and Integration at Work, Hellenic Republic, Head of the ReBrain Greece Initiative.

Konstantinos Aravossis

Secretary General for Natural Environment & Water, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Hellenic Republic

Christos Economou

Acting Director DG MARE, European Commission

Jean-Pierre Halkin

Head of Unit - Competence Centre Macro-regions and Territorial Co-operation, European Commission

Eleni Hatziyanni

Policy Officer, DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission

Ioannis Kaltsas

Head of Division of the European Investment Bank

Olga Kefalogianni

Member of Parliament, Hellenic Republic

Joanna Mouliou Niessler

Policy officer and programme manager at the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy, European Commission

Secretary General, Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR)

Deputy Governor of Entrepreneurship Research and Innovation Region of Western Greece

George Alexakis

Vice Governor of Crete on European and International Affairs

Nikolas Komineas

Mayor of Astypalea

Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou

Chair, Special Permanent Committee of Environmental Protection of the Hellenic Parliament

President of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB)

Adélaïde Charlier

Co-founder of #YouthForClimate

Gianni Chianetta

Director & Scientific Coordinator, Greening the islands

Kostas Andriosopoulos

Professor, Finance and Energy Economics, ESCP Business School

Spyros J. Kiartzis

Manager New Technologies & Alternative Energy Sources, Hellenic Petroleum SA

President of the Greek National Tourism Organization

Grammenos Mastrojeni

Deputy Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean

Managing Partner at Delfi Partners & Co

Legal Expert Circular Clima Institute - EPLO, Associate Professor - University “Titu Maiorescu” Bucharest

Director, Mediterranean Region at GSTC (Global Sustainable Tourism Council)

Sophie Scarvelis

Projects Unit Manager Interreg MED Joint Secretariat

Sergio Ponsa Salas

Director of BETA Technological Center, Spain

Merce Boy Roura

EU Project Manager - Interreg MED Green Growth coordinator at BETA Technological Center / UVic-UCC, Spain

Giuseppe Sciacca

Executive Secretary of the CPMR Islands Commission

Projects and International Cooperation Area Manager at ASCAME

Chief Policy & Impact Officer of Sporos Platform

Simone Bastianoni

Professor of Environmental and Cultural Heritage Chemistry, University of Siena, Italy

Theocharis Tsoutsos

Professor, Renewable Energy Sources Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems Laboratory Division I: Environmental Management

Markos Damasiotis

Director of Development, Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES)

Marketing Greece CEO

Ingrid Briesner

EPOMM Coordinator, Co-of ECOMM – the annual European Conference on Mobility Management, Senior Project Manager, Communication & Dissemination Manager CIVITAS PORTIS

Alexia Spyridonidou

Business Development Manager | Transport Policy Expert Institute of Circular Economy and Climate Change of the European Public Law Organisation (EPLO)

Gaetano Zarlenga

Director of CUEIM, Italy

Pascalis Kastanas

Sustainable Packaging Manager, Nestlé Hellas

CEO of "The Solar Company" (TSC)

Johanna Leissner

Scientific Representative of Fraunhofer Institutes | Cultural Heritage and Sustainability Network

Former Advisor to the Director for Investment, Innovative & Sustainable Transport & Coordinator for Innovation DG MOVE (mobility & transport) European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.

Ismail Ahmed Seddik

Business Development Officer, The Solar Company, Cairo

Athanasios Kalogeras

Research Director, Industrial Systems Institute of the Athena Research and Innovation Center

Alexandros Papachatzis

Professor, University of Thessaly

Antonia Moropoulou

Professor, National Technical University of Athens

Marcin Seredynski

Head of Innovation and Research, E-Bus Competence Center (Livange, Luxembourg)

Yorgos Stephanedes

Professor, University of Patras

Ioannis Mardikis

Director of Circular Economy and Climate Change Institute- Circular Economy Business expert, EU projects’ manager of Dynamic Vision

Katerina Nafplioti Panagopoulos

Ambassador at Large of the Hellenic Republic National Ambassador of Greece to the Council of Europe for Sport, Tolerance and Fair Play President of the Panhellenic Women's Sport Assosiation KALLIPATEIRA

Phoebe Koundouri

Professor in Economic Theory and Policy, School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, President of the European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists EAERE

Georgeta Auktor

Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn, in the department of Sustainable Economic and Social Development

Lefteris Economou.

Senior Researh Engineer, SignalGeneriX

Deputy Secretary General of Organization of World Heritage Cities

Director Policy & Projects - Coordinator Access at POLIS

PhD Sustainable Development, Chairman of DCarbon Egypt

Founder and Director of the European Sustainability Academy (ESA)

Sotiris Kokkinos

CEO FEAC Engineering P.C.

Andrea Guilsano

CEO of Wave for Energy Srl

PhD in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, Tecnomac s.rl.

Javier Abanades

Responsible for R&D projects and numerical modeling in the wind energy division at TYPSA

Angeliki Kosmopoulou

Executive Director of the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation

Yannis Geragotelis

Founder and Managing Partner of KiNNO

Christine Suesta

R&D Project Coordinator at Rover Maritime

Business Development Manager, Eco Wave Power

Andrea Novás Cortés

Manager of European projects at Rotary Wave

Management Consultant for Kuma Energy

Finance Director Sea Wave Energy Ltd

Cristoforos Perakis

Project Manager and Energy Expert in the Development Programs Division of CRES

Costas Karamanis

Chairman of the ICT Sector Group

Manuel Moreno Nicolás

External Expert in Interreg MED RE-LIVE WAST project.

Konstantina Marousi

Senior Project Manager and Project Development Consultant - University of Patras - Dynamic Vision

Thanasis Koukounaris

Senior Project Manager and Projects Development Manager - University of Patras - Dynamic Vision

Athan Gadanidis

Environmental biologist, Sereco BIOTEST

Valentina Beghetto

Senior Assistant Professor at the University Ca’ Foscari Venice

Ricardo Alvarez

Supply Chain Operations Manager in DNV GL Iberia

Project Manager - Dynamic Vision

Caterina Pratico

Interreg Blue Growth Coordinator - CoNISMa

Business Development Director at HELB,

Scientific Programmer & Backend Engineer, InSyBio Inc

Stelios Koutroubinas

Léonard Lévêque

Senior Expert, ANIMA network

Aurélien Baudoin

Network & Development ANIMA Network

Carmen Renovell Giner

Giovanni Caprino

Vice-President of the National Blue Italian Growth Technological Cluster - BIG

Harry Kalliaras

Advisor to the Mayor of Trikala

Luis Miranda Molas

Yannis Evmolpidis

Vice president at the Green Fund

Head of EU project unit E-zavod

Elena Patatouka

Senior Project Manager and Research at e-Trikala

Valentina Bozzi

EU Project team of SVIM-Sviluppo Marche Srl

Research fellow Area Science Park

Laia Vinyes Marcé

Project Officer MedCities, Urban Transport Community - Interreg MED

Ioannis Panagiotidis

Sustainable Mobility & Telematics Consultant for Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works of Cyprus. Public Works Dept.

Vedran Kirincic

Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka

Owner and founder of Different Srl | Marketing & Innovation Knowledge provider of ILMA Srl

Alessandro Carollo

Chief Executive Officer, IDEA Urbana S.r.l

Christos Gioldasis

CIVINET CY-EL, Urban Transports Community

Honorary Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage President of the Hellenic Blue Shield and council Member of ICOMOS

Region of Western Greece