Dr. Rym Ayadi
Coordinator of MEDPRO, Scientific Bureau, WP6 leader, WP9 co-leader CEPS team leader
CEPS
+32 2 2293932

Dr. Rym Ayadi is the coordinator of MEDPRO, member of the scientific bureau and WP6- Financial services and capital markets leader.
Dr. Rym Ayadi is Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research of the Financial Institutions, Prudential Policy and Tax Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies since 2001. She holds a PhD in economics and finance at the University Paris Dauphine. Previous to CEPS, she was economist at the French banking association in Paris and at the European...


Dr. Samir Abdullah
Scientific Bureau, MAS team leader
MAS
+972 (0 )229 870 53

A Palestinian national with a Ph.D. in Economics. Since Dec. 2009, he has served as the Director General of the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), a position which he previously held from 2004-2007. Prior to joining MAS, Dr. Abdullah served as the Minister of Planning and Minister of Labor in the Palestinian Government from June 2007 to May 2009. Dr. Abdullah started his career in the academic field as an Assistant Professor in 1984, and was promoted to Associate Professor...


Javier Albarracin Corredor
Scenario Building Committee
IEMed
+34 93 244 98 50

Responsible of Socioeconomic Development Department at the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed). He was Responsible for the Middle East and North African region at the Consortium for Foreign Trade Promotion of Catalonia (COPCA), belonging to the Catalan Ministry of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise. Direct responsibility on the offices in Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Iran operating in all the countries of this region. He was Researcher at the University...


Dr. Saloua Ben Zaghou
Scientific Bureau, ITCEQ team leader
ITCEQ
+ 216 71 80 20 44

Mrs. Saloua Ben Zaghou-Bahri, born in Tunis (1946), is the director of the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies (ITCEQ). She graduated from the Sciences’ Faculty of Tunis and from the School of Statistics and Economic Administration of Paris (ENSAE). Her expertise covers a wide range of issues among which: education economics (in cooperation with Algier’s Center for Research in Applied Economics, CREA), exchange rate policy, monetary and financial policy...


Dr. Frédéric Blanc
Scientific Bureau, Scenario Building Committee, WP9 co-leader, FEMISE team leader
FEMISE
+33 4 91 31 51 95

Dr. Frederic Blanc is currently the General Manager of the Femise, euromed network of Economics institutes, supported by the European Commission. He is also Chief Economist of the Institut de la Mediterranee (since October 2001, French NGO localised in Marseilles which coordinates the Femise network jointly with ERF since 1997). PhD in 1996, A. von Humboldt fellow (post-doc in 1997 in Frankfurt am Main, Goethe Universität), he entered then Institut de la Mediterranee in 1997. He took...


Dr. Francesco Bosello
Scenario Building Committee, WP4a leader
FEEM
+39 041 2711459 / +39 02 50321147

Graduated at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, he received a Master degree in economics from the University College of London (UK) and a Doctoral degree in economics from the University of Venice. He is presently assistant professor of economics at the University Statale of Milan, associate researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) of Milan and affiliate scientist at the Euromediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC). His main interests are focused on climate-change...


Prof. Pantelis Capros
Scientific Bureau, Chair of Scenario Building Committee, WP8 leader, ICCS/NTUA team leader
ICCS/NTUA
+30 210 772 36 29 / 41

Prof. Pantelis Capros heads the E3MLab of ICCS. He is a Professor of Energy Economics and Operation Research at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens. He has built and used a variety of large-scale mathematical models and has more than 20 years professional experience of consultancy in the domain of energy and economic policy. For the MEDPRO project, E3MLAB will use and apply the GEM-E3 general equilibrium model. In particular, the...


Prof. Marek Dabrowski
Scientific Bureau, CASE team leader
CASE
+48 22 622 66 27

Marek Dabrowski is Professor of Economics and President of CASE, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for the Economy in Transition in Moscow, Member of the Executive Committee of the Association of the Comparative Economic Studies, Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Journal of Comparative Economics, and Member of the Consulting Board of the 'Economic Systems' Journal. Former First Deputy Minister of Finance (1989-1990), Member of Parliament (1991-1993) and Member...


Dr. Luc de Wulf
Scenario Building Committee, WP5 leader
CASE
+48 22 622 66 27

Luc De Wulf, a Belgian national obtained his economic degree at the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven, Belgium, and a PhD in Economics from Clark University, Worcester, Mass., USA. After a two-year teaching assignment at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, he joined the International Monetary Fund, where he worked both in the Fiscal Affairs and the Asian Departments. He transferred to the World Bank in 1988, where he worked in both the African and Middle Eastern Departments as macro...


Prof. Kemal Dervis
Adviser to the Scientific Bureau
Brookings Institute

Prof. Kemal Dervis, is former head of the United Nations Development Program and current vice president and director of Global Economy and Development at Brookings Institution. As a specialist in development issues and with a deep insight in the policy issues of the Mediterranean countries Prof. Dervis is associated with this project to provide advice in the formulation of the general and strategic directions of MEDPRO, and to contribute to the review of geopolitical issues and the...


Prof. Alia El Mahdi
Scientific Bureau, WP7 leader, FEPS team leader
FEPS
+202 35 735 055

Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science- Cairo University since August 2008, and Professor of Economics, Cairo University since 1995.
My main areas of specialization are macroeconomic analysis and labor market research. During the last 20 years I have been heavily involved in conducting economic surveys. The fields of research varied and included several topics such as labor market research projects, micro and small enterprises surveys, empirical studies on industrial...


H.E Ambassador Senen Florensa I Palau
Scientific Bureau, IEMed team leader
IEMed
+34 93 244 98 50

A diplomat and ambassador, he holds a degree in Economic Science (1971) and in Law (1972) from the Universitat de Barcelona. He studied for his doctorate in Economics at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1973-1974); as a Fullbright scholarship holder at New York University, Ph. D. Program (1974-1976), and at the Universidad Complutensede Madrid, where he presented his doctoral thesis in 1979. Diploma in International Studies from the Diplomatic School of the Spanish...


Dr. George Groenewold
WP3 leader, NIDI team leader
NIDI
+31 70 35 65 260

Dr. George Groenewold is a demographer at NiDi. Before, he worked at FAO (Regional Advisory Services for the Middle East and West Asia) providing support to institutions in the region on Population and Development issues in the context of Rural Development. At NiDi, his research covers, among others, international migration from African and Middle Eastern countries to Europe. He also carries out training missions in the region on demographic analysis, including population projection methods...


Dr. Manfred Hafner
Scientific Bureau, WP4b leader, FEEM team leader
FEEM
+39 02 520 369 87

Dr. Manfred Hafner has a more than 20 years international carrier in the energy sector and in particular on the Mediterranean region. He presently coordinates energy policy activities at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM); is President for Europe, MENA, Russia and CIS at International Energy Consultants (IEC); and teaches energy economics, markets and policy at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, the Institut Français du Pétrole, HEC-Paris and the Florence School of Regulation....


Jawad Kerdoudi
Scientific Bureau, IMRI team leader
IMRI
+ 212 522 44 64 47

After graduating from HEC Paris in 1965, Jawad Kerdoudi was recruited by the Bureau for Exports Commercialization of Morocco which had the monopoly on Moroccan exports of agricultural products by then. After a successful career, he became chief officer of the bureau in Hamburg (Germany) and New York (United States) while at the same time being Consul General of the Kingdom of Morocco. He came back to Morocco where he held various executive positions within the Bureau of Exports...


Jorgen Mortensen
Scientific Bureau
CEPS

Jørgen Mortensen is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). He graduated in economics and statistics from the University in Copenhagen in 1963. After a brief period as administrator at the Central Statistical Office he took up a post as junior economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. From 1973 to 1988 he was a senior economist (Head of Division) in the Directorate-General for...


Prof. Jean Louis Reiffers
Scientific Bureau, WP9 co-leader
FEMISE
+33 4 91 31 51 95

Jean Louis Reiffers is « Professeur Agregé » in International Economics at the University of Toulon-Var and Associate Professor at Euromed Management. He is president of the Second Chance School, president of the Scientific Council of the Institut de la Méditerrannée and coordinator of the FEMISE’s scientific council. Jean Louis Reiffers was born on September 26th 1941 and obtained his PhD in international economics and finance in 1969. He...


Dr. Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero
Scientific officer
European Commission Directorate General for Research

Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero is Principal Administrator at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Research. During ten years, he has been responsible for the EU research related to "Energy-Economy-Environment" models, to world energy and technology outlooks (2030-2050), and to the quantification of energy external costs (social and environmental costs). Currently, Domenico is responsible for the European forward looking studies, mostly Foresight and Forecast. In the...


Sally Scott
Administration and management
CEPS
+32 2 229 39 11

Head of Finance and Administration at CEPS and has an MBA from the Open University. She is responsible for the financial and administrative coordination of all the research contracts. She has extensive experience of managing FP5 and FP6 research projects, including the financial management of an Integrated Project, and of working with partners from across Europe. She will be responsible for the administrative management of MEDPRO.


Dr. Carlo Sessa
Scenario Building Committee, ISIS team leader
ISIS
+39 06 361 29 20

Carlo SESSA is President of ISIS – Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems of Rome. Before joining ISIS in 1983, he has conducted research at NYU, where he worked with Nobel Prize winner Wassily Leontieff. He was the Coordinator of several EU research projects, in the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programmes, in the fields of transport, urban issues and environment. In this context, he organised several participatory foresight exercises, involving panels of experts and...


Dr. Nathalie Tocci
WP2 leader, IAI team leader
IAI
+39 06 322 43 60

Nathalie Tocci (BA Oxford, MSc and PhD LSE) is Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington and the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome. She is also Associate Editor of The International Spectator. She has held previous research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies and the European University Institute. Her research interests include European foreign policy, conflict resolution, Transatlantic relations and the European neighborhood, with a particular focus on Turkey...