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Executive bodies

The Project Coordinator will efficiently manage SESAME, who will, in turn, be supported by a Management Group. Their work will be supported by SESAME’s Steering Committee (SC) and Advisory Board (AB).

Scientific Steering Committee

  • Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou, HCMR, Coordinator
  • Dr. Helen Kaberi, HCMR, Project Manager
  • Dr. Gabriel Gorsky, CNRS, WP1 Leader
  • Dr. Dimitris Georgopoulos, HCMR, WP2 Co-Leader
  • Dr. Andrei Zatsepin, P.P. Shirshov, WP2 Co-Leader
  • Dr. Emin Ozsoy, IMS-METU, WP3 Leader
  • Dr. Marilaure Gregoire, ULg-MARE, WP4 Leader
  • Dr. Javier Ruiz, CSIC, WP5 Leader
  • Dr. Marco Zavatarelli, CoNISMa, WP6 Leader
  • Prof. Michalis Skourtos, AEGEAN , WP7 Leader
  • Dr. Snejana Moncheva, IO-BAS, WP8 Leader
  • Dr. Isaac Gertman, IOLR, WP9 Leader

The Advisory Board

  • Dr Umit Unluata
    Head of Ocean Science Section
    Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, (IOC)
  • Dr Franco Saverio Civili
    MEDPOL Coordinator
    United Nations Environment Programme / Mediterranean Action Plan UNEP/MAP
  • Dr Oksana Tarasova
    Pollution Monitoring and Assessment Officer
    Black Sea Commission
  • Dr Eva Royo Gelabert
    Project Manager Marine Assessments
    European Environmental Agency (EEA)
  • Prof. Frederic Briand
    Director General
    The Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM)
  • Prof. André Monaco
    Emeritus Research Director Coordinator of the MATER Project in the Med (MTP-II)
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur l'Environnement Marin (CNRS-CEFREM)
  • Prof. Anastasios Eleftheriou
    Coordinator of the CINCS Project -Eastern Mediterranean (MTP I)
    University of Crete
  • Prof. Kerry Turner
    Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE)
    School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
  • Dr Michael Flint
    Deputy Director, Coordinator of major Black Sea projects
    P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Dr John H. Steele
    President Emeritus, Marine Policy Center
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
  • Prof. Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli
    Co-scientific Coordinator of the POEM project, Coordinator of MEDCLIVAR
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Prof. Louis Legendre
    Directeur du Laboratoire d' Oceanographie de Villefranche (LOV); Deputy Scientific Director of EUROCEANS
    European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis (EUR-OCEANS)
  • Dr Carlo Heip
    CEME: Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology; General Coordinator of MARBEF
    Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (MARBEF)
  • Dr Kaisa Kononen
    BONUS Program Manager
    Academy of Finland

Management Group

  • Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou
    Coordinator
  • Dr. Helen Kaberi
    Project Manager
  • Mr. Nikolaos Streftaris
    Reporting
  • Dr. Christos Tziavos
    Accounting
  • Mr. Euripides Papadopoulos
    Accounting
  • Mrs. Roula Frangou
    Accounting
  • Mrs. Anna Mavriki
    Secretariat work
  • Mrs. Claudia Cesarini
    Internal Communication (PROGECTA management tool)