Scientific Bureau
In order to ensure the coordination between the research areas, the Scientific Bureau will act under a separate work package. Its members consist of senior researchers from the partner institutes involved in MEDPRO, namely:
- Dr. Rym Ayadi, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and overall Coordinator of the MEDPRO project;
- Dr. Samir Abdullah, Director General of the Palestine Institute for Economic Policy Research (MAS);
- Dr. Saloua Ben Zaghou, Director of Institut Tunisien de la Compétitivité et des Etudes Quantitatives (ITCEQ);
- Dr. Frédéric Blanc, General Manager of Forum Euro-Méditerranéen des Instituts Economiques (FEMISE);
- Prof. Pantelis Capros, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems/National Technical Univesity of Athens (ICCS/NTUA);
- Prof. Marek Dabrowski, President of the Centre for Economic and Social Research (CASE);
- Prof. Alia El Mahdi, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University (FEPS);
- H.E Ambassador Senén Florensa i Palau, Director General of Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània (IEMed);
- Dr. Manfred Hafner, Coordinator of Energy Security of Supply activities at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM);
- Jawad Kerdoudi, President of Institut Marocain des Relations Internationales (IMRI);
- Jorgen Mortensen, Associate Senior Research Fellow at CEPS; and,
- Prof. Jean Louis Reiffers, President of the Scientific Council of FEMISE.
The Scientific Bureau will benefit from the broad expertise of Prof. Kemal Dervis, former Head of the United Nations Development Program and current Vice President and Director of Global Economy and Development at Brookings Institute. It will systematically address the interaction between the different fields of study and the multidisciplinary endeavours of the work throughout the project. To do so, its members will hold regular meetings ensuring coordination between all partner institutes and formulation of overall methodology, expected results and policy options during the three stages of the research. In addition to the Scientific Bureau, a Scenario-building Committee will be created under the Scientific Bureau. It will coordinate the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the research in order to draw up prospective scenarios for the South Mediterranean countries, their relations with the EU and the rest of the world. It will be composed of:
- Prof. Pantelis Capros, IICS/NTUA, Chair of the Scenario Building Committee;
- Javier Albarracín Corredor, IEMed;
- Dr. Frédéric Blanc, FEMISE;
- Dr. Francesco Bosello, FEEM;
- Dr. Luc De Wulf, CASE; and,
- Dr. Carlo Sessa, Istituto di Studi per l’Integrazione dei Sistemi (ISIS).