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Assistant Professor in Public International Law
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Dr Sofia Galani is an Assistant Professor at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and a Scientific Advisor to the Hellenic Parliament. She holds a PhD in Public International Law and an LLM from the University of Bristol and an LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer (2021), a Lecturer (2015-2020), and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Bristol (2012-2015). She has taught international law at the Panteion University, the University of Bristol Law School, the Greek School of National Defence, the University of Piraeus, and the Open Hellenic University and has given guest lectures and seminars at the Universities of Nottingham, Leipzig, Freiburg, and Waseda University. She has given professional training courses at the NATO Maritime Security Centre of Excellence, Istanbul, and the Atlantic Centre of the Portuguese Ministry of Defence. Sofia is one of the principal contributors to the UNODC Maritime Crime: A Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners and a consultant to the UNODC Maritime Crime Programme. She sits at the Non-Executive Board of Advisors of the UK-based charity Human Rights at Sea and is one of the principal authors of the Geneva Declaration of Human Rights at Sea.
Executive Secretary of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention
Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons has been a lawyer and lecturer at the University of Law (Montpellier) and at the Institute of Political Sciences (Strasbourg). Since 1987 she has worked as a Senior Official at the Council of Europe in the following positions:
Publications on: Environment and sustainable development; Coastal and marine areas; Human rights and the environment; Sustainable tourism; Biodiversity; Cultural heritage; Spatial planning and landscape.
Books: Protection and development of the Mediterranean Basin - International texts and documents; The Mediterranean in international environmental law; Human rights and the environment.
Editor of the Futuropa: for a new vision of landscape and territory Magazine
Ilias Diamantopoulos is a Research Assistant in MEPIELAN Center.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International, European, and Area Studies (“Excellent”) with a major in Public International Law and Institutions from the Panteion University of Athens, Greece (2022). Throughout his studies he wrote a number of module-specific research essays, which included “Limitation of Human Rights under International Human Rights Law”, “The Dispute Settlement Process in ICAO”, “International Law Commission and the Phenomenon of fragmentation of International Law”, “Effects of underdevelopment in Central and South America andthe Caribbean: the case of Chile”, “The SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation”. In the framework of his Bachelor’s Degree studies, Ilias, as an Erasmus exchange student, successfully completed a semester at the Law Department of Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (2020-2021) specialized in EU Law.
From February 2022 to April 2022, Ilias conducted an internship at the A7 Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is in charge of political relations between Greece and the countries of North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. During his internship, Ilias conducted research and report drafting on the latest developments in the LAC countries and wrote research papers utilized for the Directorate’s internal briefing.
Ilias has also attended numerous academic seminars and conferences on International and European Law, International Relations, and Sustainable Development and produced papers. Moreover, he has been a member of the Panteion University Study Group on the application of the 17 SDGs to the university campus.
In January 2023, Ilias joined MEPIELAN Centre (Mediterranean Programme for International Environmental Law and Negotiation as a Research Assistant. Under this capacity, he conducts research in the realm of International and European Environmental Law and Governance in the Mediterranean context, works for the new edition of MEPIELAN E-Bulletin and he assists in the organization of a training school on the Sustainability Governance in the Mediterranean to be carried out by UNEP/MAP and MEPIELAN/EPLO.
For his research activity at MEPIELAN, he has been awarded a scholarship from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in May 2023.
Associate Professor of International Law
University of Milano-Bicocca
Irini Papanicolopulu is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy, with habilitation to Full Professor. She has a PhD in international law from the University of Milano, and has previously worked at the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow. She is a Visiting Professor at Catolica University (Lisbon, Portugal) and St. Gallen University (Switzerland) and has been a visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg). She has ample teaching and research experience in International Law, the Law of the Sea, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law and Refugee Law. Irini is the author of two monographs, including Irini Papanicolopulu, International Law and the Protection of People at Sea (OUP 2018). She has authored numerous articles and book chapters published in leading journals on a wide range of issues relating to, among others, international law, the law of the sea and oceans governance, human rights and refugee and migrant protection, marine environment protection and the due diligence duties of states. Irini has also edited several collective volumes, including the award-winning Gender and the Law of the Sea (Brill 2019). Irini has been the founder and first coordinator of the Interest Group on the Law of the Sea of the Italian Society of International Law and currently serves in the Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on the Law of the Sea of the European Society of International Law. She has been a member of the Italian delegation in negotiations concerning various aspects of international law and occasionally advises states, international organisations, civil society organisations and business actors on issues of International Law, the Law of the Sea, Human Rights Law and Environmental Law.
Ph.D (Panteion University), Academy of Athens
MEPIELAN Research Fellow
Legal Advisor
MEPIELAN Centre, Panteion University of Athens
Magdalini Parouti is a Research Fellow of MEPIELAN Centre and a member of the research team of MEPIELAN E-Bulletin. Magdalini is also a legal advisor, policy advisor and litigator in the areas of Public International and International Economic law, Environmental law and Sustainable Development, Human Rights, International Commercial, Regulatory Law, Adult Care and Mental Health law and International Affairs.
She holds a Bachelor’s in International and European Studies from Panteion University of Athens and a Bachelor’s in laws (LLB) specialising in Public International Law, Asylum Law and Human Rights and International Relations, with the University of Sheffield and London Metropolitan University (Faculty of Laws and Public International Law and International Relations). Magdalini is currently completing her LLM in International Economic Law with a special focus on sustainable development, energy and human rights with Queen Mary University, London. Her diverse work background encompasses extensive legal and policy advisory services to various central and local government organisations, such as International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the Serious Fraud Office, (SFO), Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC’s) Solicitors Office), Local Authorities, Magic Circle law firms, NGOs. Magdalini has also held in house-Counsel positions amongst others in commercial organisations, the charity sector and regulatory environments, providing both legal, policy, business and operational risk, advice. She is also the Founder and Chairwoman of Kind at Heart Foundation Charitable Organisation - supporting young homeless people with legal representation, education and creative arts and a Global Goodwill Ambassador. She has also undertaken diverse training with public bodies and NGOs, such as the A4ID (Advocates for International Development), Free Representation Unit on Social Security and Employment Laws, Middle Temple Mooting and Further Education for Young Barristers, and acquired a Practitioner’s Certificate in Data Protection (FOI & SOCA Regulations, GDPR). She is currently working as a Consultant for EKLLC London.
Her main research interests and publications lie in the fields of International Law, Human Rights, Sustainable development and governance, environmental migration, international economic law and energy, She is currently undertaking research in the role of trade law in sustainable energy and the environment.
Founder and Chairwoman of Kind at Heart Foundation Charitable Organisation - supporting youth support via education and arts.
An Agreement was signed on December 30, 2020, between Panteion University/ MEPIELAN Centre, represented the Vice Rector of Research and Life-Long Learning of the Panteion University Professor Charalampos Economou and by the Director of MEPIELAN Centre Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos and the Mediterranean Information Centre for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO/ECSDE), represented by the President of the MIO/ECSDE Professor Michael Scoullos.
This Agreement is established within the framework of the MoU already signed between the two Parties. It aims to materialize and implement the Research Component of the activity described in the MoU as elaboration of a desk study for the development of a Foundation Discussion Document (FDD) for a “Mediterranean Accession Agenda to the Aarhus Convention”. This activity will promote Environmental Governance in the Mediterranean encouraging the accession to and implementation of the Aarhus Convention in the Mediterranean countries and promote stakeholders engagement. The activity will be carried out under the scientific responsibility of MEPIELAN Centre and is part of the MIO/ECSDE Work Programme supported by the Life Environment Programme (NGOs Operating Grant).
According to the Terms of Reference contained in Annex I of the Agreement, MEPIELAN Centre undertakes the development of the FDD as a detailed, comprehensive document of interdisciplinary research together with a Summary Document envisioning the Mediterranean Accession Agenda to the Aarhus Convention. It will synthesize the results of a number of activities including:
The project, starting upon the signature of the Agreement (30 December 2020), will be developed over a period of 7 months. The drafting of the FDD and the accompanying Summary Document will be carried out under the responsibility of Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, Director of MEPIELAN Centre, and a small team of MEPIELAN Experts and Researches working under his guidance. The draft version of the FDD will be shared with MIO/ECSDE and the UNEP/MAP Barcelona Convention Secretariat while the drafting of the final version by MEPIELAN will ingrain inputs from the MAP/MCSD, the Aarhus Convention and UfM Secretariats, and COMPSUD.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on October 12, 2020 between the MEPIELAN Centre/Panteion University of Athens, represented by the Director of MEPIELAN Centre Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos and the Vice Rector of International Affairs and Partnerships of the Panteion University Professor Marianna Psilla, and the Mediterranean Information Centre for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO/ECSDE), represented by the President of the MIO/ECSDE Professor Michael Scoullos.
The MoU aims to implement the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD) 2016-2025 Flagship Initiative 6.2.3 on Environmental Governance to Encourage the Accession to the Aarhus Convention in the Mediterranean countries. It was drafted by MEPIELAN Centre, in cooperation with MIO/ECSDE and the UNEP/MAP Barcelona Convention Secretariat.
The MoU is based on the following international context:
Under this MoU, the MEPIELAN/Panteion and MIO/ECSDE will develop a platform of cooperative activities, in cooperation with the UNEP/MAP Barcelona Convention Secretariat and the UNECE-Aarhus Convention Secretariat. This will include the organization of a capacity building in support of the Flagship Initiative 6.2.3, promoting the engagement of the Civil Society Organizations and strengthening the implementation capacity of public authorities. Moreover, the MEPIELAN Centre will undertake, in collaboration with the MIO/ECSDE and the UNEP/MAP Barcelona Convention Secretariat, a three-task project:
The MoU provides that that the Director of MEPIELAN/Panteion, Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, and the Chairman of the MIO/ECSDE, Professor Michael Scoullos, will be responsible for the activities implemented in the framework of this MoU.
The MoU will be valid for a period of two years and it may be further extended by the mutual consent of the two Parties.
Professor of International Law
Department of Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Professor of International Law in the Universities of Parma (1980-1991), Genoa (1991-1994), Milan (1994-1998) and Milano-Bicocca (since 1998). Invited professor at the Universities of Brest (1987), Paris II (1993), Paris I (1995), Nantes (1999, 2004, 2005), Limoges (2000), Nice (2002). Associate of the Institut de Droit International (since 2017). Occasionally attended, as legal expert, negotiations and meetings on law of the sea, law of cultural properties, human rights, international organizations.
Journalist
MEPIELAN Communication Officer
Ph.D (Cand), Dept. of Political Science & Public Administration, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Nadia Vassiliadou is a journalist, permanent member of ESHEA (Journalist’s Union of Athens Daily Newspapers) and Communication Officer of MEPIELAN Centre. She is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science & Public Administration, of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, conducting research οn climate change and EU’s environmental policy in the european mass media.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Mass Media from the Panteion University of Athens and a Master of Arts in Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development from the Panteion University. Her Postgraduate thesis, in 2018, was entitled "Media and Environment in Greece: The Method of Managing General Environmental Issues by the Press - The Role of Media Owners, Journalists and the More Effective Use of Environmental Information Sources".
She is co-creator and journalist of the news website “PressPublica” (www.presspublica.gr), a partnership of independent media professionals, which has 12 members. From April 2015 to April 2017, she participated in the three-member committee, responsible for the multi-dimensional organization, sustainability, promotion, support of the website.
She has worked as a Communication Officer at the Ministry of Labor handling the Social Solidarity portfolio and at the Special Secretariat for Crisis Communication Management of the Ministry of Digital Politics, Telecommunications and Information.
She had been working as a journalist for the newspaper Eleftherotypia, the Sunday edition of it (Kyriakatiki Eleftherotypia) and its website (www.enet.gr) between 2000 and 2014. Her main responsibility was the research, mostly focused on environmental and political issues, and the free reporting. In recent years, she had been accredited to the Ministry of Interior. At the same time, she acted as member of the investigative team at the “Reports Without Frontiers” newscast at ΕRΤ TV (between 2002 and 2005), while afterwards she worked at the newspaper “Documento” and its website as an accredited editor at the Ministry of Interior and responsible for research and free reporting.
Nadia has published numerous reports and conducted researches on environmental issues and corruption. Some of them have occupied the judiciary authorities, the press and the Greek parliament as they have served as a stepping stone to parliamentary questions. In 2014 she participated with her journalistic research to the documentary “128 Days in the Block", which was based upon the case of construction of a landfill in Keratea region, case that she had extensively covered and investigated on behalf of the newspaper.
Programme Management Officer - Governance
United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan
Ilias Mavroeidis is Programme Management Officer, on Governance, in the United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) - Barcelona Convention Secretariat. Before joining UNEP/MAP in 2016, he has served as a scientific expert in the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Greece (August 2001-August 2015) and as Environment Attaché at the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union (September 2015-June 2016).
Ilias has been involved in international negotiations related to the environment and sustainable development in the context of international and regional organizations and initiatives, such as UNEP, the European Union, the former UN Commission on Sustainable Development, Black Sea Economic Cooperation, Adriatic-Ionian Initiative/EUSAIR and the European Council. While serving at the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Greece, he has been a Member of the Bureau of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention for the periods 2009-2011 & 2013-2015 and a Vice-President of the Steering Committee of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) for the period 2009-2011.
Prior, he worked as an Affiliated Researcher at the Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute of CERTH (1999-2001), where he was engaged in research on air pollutant emissions and renewable energy sources. He has also been involved in lecturing and has published more than 80 refereed papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings, mainly in the field of environmental management and technology.
Ilias Mavroeidis has a first degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He holds an MSc in Pollution and Environmental Control and a PhD in Chemical Engineering (Air Pollution) from the University of Manchester/UMIST, United Kingdom. He also holds an MSc in Adult Education from the Hellenic Open University.
Elli Louka is the founder of Law-In-Action (www.law-in-action.com), a consulting company based in Princeton, New Jersey and has worked with countries and companies on international law issues. Louka has been a Marie Curie Fellow, a Ford Foundation Fellow and Senior Fellow at Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.
Socrates Zachos is a Senior Research Fellow of MEPIELAN Centre and a member of the editorial research team of MEPIELAN E-Bulletin.
He holds a PhD in International Environmental Law and Policy from the Panteion University of Athens. His thesis, conducted under the supervision of the Director of MEPIELAN, Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, was entitled "Global Environmental Governance at Regional and Local Level. Issues, Challenges and Perspectives".
In 2002, he obtained a Bachelor in ‘International and European Studies’ from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in Athens. During 2003, he went to China, where he attended language and cultural courses in Beijing Language and Cultural University. In 2006, he received a Master degree in ‘Environment and Sustainable Development’ from the International and European Studies Department of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in Athens. Socrates Zachos has worked as Special Adviser on issues related to Environment, Sustainable Development & Transeuropean Municipal Networks to Georgios Papanikolaou, Mayor of Glyfada Municipality, from 2014 to 2018. He is currently serving as a Secretary General of Municipality of Glyfada.
Environmental Governance Regimes
Planning and Application of Environmental and Sustainable Development Policies at Regional and Local Level.
Environmental Governance at Regional and Local Level
Public Participation
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
Transboundary Movements of Hazardous wastes
Zachos, S., “Unfolding Local Authorities Role and Contribution to the Rio+20 Process”, MEPIELAN E-Bulletin, November 2012 (editor reviewed)
General Secretary of the Municipality of Glyfada, Attica, Greece
Teaching Associate, “International and Regional Environmental Governance”, (2011-2019), Postgraduate Programme of the Dept. of International & European Studies, Panteion University of Athens
Teaching Associate, “International Environmental Law and the Mediterranean” (2014-2019), Dept. of International & European Studies, Panteion University of Athens
Editorial Assistant, MEPIELAN E-Bulletin
Assistant Professor, EU Environmental Law and EU Administrative Law
Department of International, European & Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece
Vasiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou studied Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and obtained a Master’ s degree in Public Law and a PhD in EU Εnvironmental Law from the University of Cologne (Germany). She worked as a Legal Advisor to the Greek Deputy Minister for Environment, as a Consultant to the UNEP-MAP and as a Senior Investigator in the Greek Ombudsman.
Since 2010 she teaches EU Environmental Law and International Environmental Law and Policy at the Panteion University in Athens (Assistant Professor). She is author of three monographs, while she has published extensively on issues relating to EU and National Environmental Law in english and in greek. She also practices law on issues relating to environmental and urban planning law and provides legal services to municipalities and public entities in this field.
Professor of Law Emerita
Dalhousie University, Canada
Moira L. McConnell is a Professor of Law Emerita, Dalhousie University, Canada and an Honorary Fellow of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute ( MELAW) on the Faculty of Law. She retired from fulltime teaching in 2015 but remains engaged in numerous research projects and supervision of masters and doctoral students in the Faculty of Law and other departments, including the Marine Affairs Programme, as well as working with graduate students at other post graduate institutions. In 2015 she was appointed to the UN World Maritime University (WMU) as External Examiner. A former Director of the MELAW she was a member of the Faculty of Law at Dalhousie University for over 25 years and a member of the Nova Scotia Bar Society since 1990. She has had many important “law in practice” roles in her career including over a decade as a Special Advisor to the ILO in connection with the Maritime Labour Convention,2006. She is also a former Executive Director the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia. Over the last 30 years Professor McConnell has undertaken numerous international, regional and national legal implementation projects related to the law of the sea, maritime law and maritime labour law and remains involved with projects with colleagues in MELAW as well as research and writing for academic publications and studies for UN organizations.
“ITLOS and the Tale of the Tenacious Genuine link”, Chapter 11, in Øystein Jens, ed., The Development of the Law of the Sea by the International Judiciary (Anticipated publication Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020).
“A brief reflection on deconstruction, “digital disruption” and the employment of seafarers” in eds. Olga Fotinopoulos, Alexandre Charbonneau, François Mandin, (working title) Overage. Patrick Chaumette (Anticipated publication Presses universitaires de Rennes 2019/2020)
Section editor and author of “Introduction to Part 3. “The Law of the Sea and Principled Ocean Governance” in The International Ocean Institute - Canada ed., The Future of Ocean Governance and Capacity Development. Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Mann Borgese ( 1918- 2002) (Leiden/Boston: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, in press 2018) at p.115
“The ILO’s Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (C.185) after more than a decade: Ahead of its time or case of good intentions gone wrong?” chapter 11 in Patrick Chaumette ( coordinator) Seafarers: an international labour market perspective (University of Nantes, Gomylex, 2016) 119-173
“A delicate balance: The seafarers’ employment agreement, the system of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and the role of flag States”, chapter 5 in Patrick Chaumette ( coordinator) Seafarers: an international labour market perspective (University of Nantes, Gomylex, 2016) 285-334.
”Maritime Labour Standards”, 2nd edition, Maritime Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2016 )
“ Forging or Foregoing “the Genuine Link”?: A reflection on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and other strategies”, in The Regulation of International Shipping: International and Comparative Perspectives. Essays in Honor of Edgar Gold. Eds., Aldo Chircop, Norman G. Letalik, Ted L. McDorman, and Susan J. Rolston (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012).
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 A Legal Primer to an Emerging International Regime (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011). ( With Dominick Devlin, Cleopatra Doumbia- Henry )
Co-editor and author of several chapters in Contributions to International Environmental Negotiations in the Mediterranean Context, MEPIELAN Studies in International Environmental Law and Negotiation – 2 (Athens, Greece: Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publications, Brussels: Bruylant, S.A., 2004). (Author of chapters: “The Convergence of Security Defence Interests and Regional Environmental Protection and their Impact on Environmental Negotiations” ; The Relationship Between Science and Politics in Environmental Negotiations”) Republished 2014 by Bruylant. (co-editor Evangelos Raftopoulos).
“Course Convergence? Comparative Perspectives on the Governance of Navigation and Shipping in Canadian and Russian Arctic Waters” in Ocean Yearbook, eds., Chircop, Coffen-Smout and McConnell, Vol 28 (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2014, 291-327) ( with Aldo Chircop, Ivan Bunik and Kristoffer Svendsen).
“Observations on the Law Applicable on the Continental Shelf and in the Exclusive Economic Zone: A Comparative View” in Ocean Yearbook, eds A Chircop, S. Coffen-Smout, Moira McConnell, Vol 25 ( Leiden/ Boston:, Martinus Nijhoff, 2011) 221-248.
“Observations on Compliance and Enforcement and Regional Fisheries Institutions: Overcoming the Limitations of the Law of the Sea”, Chapter 4 in D. Russell and D.VanderZwaag, eds., Strengthening Canada’s Regional Fisheries Management Arrangements in Light of Sustainability Principles, (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2010) 71-98.
“ ‘Making labour history’ and the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006: Implications for international law making (and responses to the dynamics of globalization)” in The Future of Ocean Regime-Building: Essays in Tribute to Douglas M. Johnston, A. Chircop, T. McDorman, S.Rolston eds (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/ Brill, 2009) 349-384.
“Invasive seaweeds: global and regional law and policy” Botanica Marina 50 (2007): 438–450. ( with M. Doelle and D. VanderZwaag).
“Responsive ocean governance: the problem of invasive species and ships’ ballast water – A Canadian study Understanding and Strengthening EU-Canada Relations in Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance” in T.Koivurova, A.Chircop, E.Franckx, E. Molenaar and D.VanderZwaag, eds, Understanding and Strengthening European Union – Canada Relations in Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance, 35 Juridica Lapponica (Rovaniemi;U of Lapland, 2009) 433-469.
Constraints Affecting the Implementation of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Pacific Island States: A Report to the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency and other Pacific Regional Agencies, August 2003 (copy on file).
Overview Report on the Development of Regulations for the Prospecting and Exploration for Polymetallic Sulphides and Cobalt-Rich Ferromanagese Crusts, Report to International Ocean Institute (IOI- HQ) and the Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute, January 2003. ( with B. Blazkiewicz)
“Inter-Agency Collaboration or Inter-Agency Competition - A Challenge for the UN System”. Paper prepared for the International Conference on Marine Environmental Law, Bremen, Germany, April 17-19, 2002 published in International Marine Environmental Law, A. Kirchner, ed., (The Hague, New York, London: Kluwer Law International, 2003) Chapter 7.\
Moira L. McConnell, Globallast Legislative Review – Final Report, Globallast Monograph Series I (London: IMO, 2002). http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/MajorProjects/Documents/Mono1.pdf
"Neighbourly Relations: Jurisdiction and Crime on the High Seas" Proceedings 1996, Canadian Council of International Law Annual Conference. Reprinted as one of 25 selected papers in Selected Papers in International Law: Contributions of the Canadian Council on International Law. Eds. Y. Le Bouthillier, D. McRae, D. Pharand (Kulwer: 1999) 501.
“International Vessel-Source Oil Pollution” Chapter 2 in The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Causal Connections and Behavioural Mechanisms., ed. Oran Young (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 1999) 33. (with Ronald Mitchell, Alexi Roginko and Ann Barrett).
"Business as Usual: An Evaluation of the 1986 United Nations Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships" (1987) 18 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 435.
"Darkening Confusion Mounted Upon Darkening Confusion: The Search for the Elusive Genuine Link" (1985) 6 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 365.
Law of the sea
Maritime law and policy
International labour law
International Law (public and private)
International environmental law
Corporate law and governance
Administrative and constitutional law
Human rights
External Examiner, World Maritime University, Malmo, Sweden (2015 - )
Co-Editor, Ocean Yearbook, (Martinus Nijhoff (Brill)) (1998- ongoing)
Associate Editor, Yearbook of International Environmental Law, (Oxford University Press) (2006-ongoing)
Editorial Board, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (Springer) ( 2011- ongoing;)
Member, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (on going)
Member (Associate) International Academy of Comparative Law ( elected 2009 – ongoing)
Advisory Board Member, International Commission of Jurists (Canadian Section) (on going)
Member, Canadian Maritime Law Association (ongoing) ; member of CMLA Committee on Maritime Labour and Immigration ( 2018 – present)
Member, Women in Shipping and Transport Association ( Canada) (WISTA)
Professor, Canadian Chair, Marine Environmental Protection
World Maritime University
Prior to joining WMU in July 2019, Meinhard served as Professor of Law, and Associate Dean, Research at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, and as an Associate Director and Director of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute (MELAW). He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
Meinhard served as policy advisor to the federal government during the development of the original Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, as a member of the Regulatory Advisory Committee, and as drafter of the NS Environment Act. He was a non-governmental member of the Canadian delegation to the UN climate negotiations from 2000-2006. He co-chaired the Tidal Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment in 2007, served on the Lower Churchill Joint Federal-Provincial Review Panel from 2009 – 2011, and co-chaired the Nova Scotia panel on aquaculture from 2013 - 2014. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for the new federal Impact Assessment Act in Canada.
Meinhard has written on a variety of environmental law topics, including climate change, energy, invasive species, environmental assessments, and public participation in environmental decision-making. His books include “Environmental Law: Cases and Materials” (2019), “The Paris Climate Agreement: Analysis and Commentary” (2017), “Compliance in an Evolving Climate Change Regim”e (2011), and “The Federal Environmental Assessment Process, a Guide and Critique" (2009).
Environmental Law
Climate Change
Environmental Impact Assessment
International Environmental Law
Environmental Governance
Renewable Energy Governance
Regulatory Approaches
Compliance
(with Sara Seck) Research Handbook on International, National, and Transnational Responses to Loss & Damage (Edgar Elgar, 2019) (in progress).
(with A. John Sinclair) The New Canadian Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (Irwin Law, 2019) (in progress).
(with Chris Tollefson) Environmental Law: Cases and Materials (3rd ed) (Toronto: Thomson/Carswell, 2019).
(co-editor), The Paris Climate Agreement: Analysis and Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
(co-editor), Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Change Regime, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), (co-author of the introduction and the concluding chapter).
(With Chris Tollefson) Environmental Law: Cases and Materials (Toronto: Thomson/Carswell, 2009).
The Federal Environmental Assessment Process: A Guide and Critique (Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2008).
From Hot Air to Action? Climate Change, Compliance and the Future of International Environmental Law (Toronto: Carswell, 2005).
Canadian Environmental Protection Act and Commentary, 2005/2006 (Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2005).
(co-author) Gearing up impact assessment as a vehicle for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2019) 37 IAPA. (DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2019.1677089).
(with Sara Seck), “Loss & Damage from Climate Change: From Concept to Remedy?” (2019) Climate Policy 1752. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1630353.
(with John Sinclair), “The New Federal Impact Assessment Act in Canada: Delivering on Reform Expectations?” (2019) 79 EIAR, 1-9.
(with David Wright), “Social Cost of Carbon in Environmental Impact Assessment” (2019) 52:3 UBC Law Review 1007.
(with Aldo Chircop), “Decarbonizing International Shipping: Potential Roles of the IMO’s Initial Strategy and the UN Climate Regime” (2019) RECIEL 1-10.
(co-author) Effectiveness Of Strategic Environmental Assessment In Canada Under Directive-Based And Informal Practice (2019) 37 IAPA 344.
“The Heart of the Paris Rulebook: Communicating NDCs and Accounting for Their Implementation” (2019) 9 Climate Law 3.
(with Bob Gibson and Karine Peloffy), “Challenges and opportunities of a forthcoming strategic assessment of the implications of international climate change mitigation commitments for individual undertakings in Canada” (2018) 10 Sustainability 3747.
“Compliance in Transition: Facilitative Compliance Finding its Place in the Paris Climate Regime” (2018) 12 CCLR 229.
(with John Sinclair and Bob Gibson), “Implementing Next Generation Assessment: A Case Example of a Global Challenge” (2018) 72 EIAR, 166.
“Toward a Principled Design of Provincial Cap & Trade Systems: Lessons from Nova Scotia's Proposal to Meet the Carbon Pricing Requirement in the Pan-Canadian Framework for Climate Change”, (2018) J. Env. L. & Prac. 293.
(co-author) “From Smokes to Smokestacks: Lessons from Tobacco for the Future of Climate Change Liability” (2017) 30 Geo Int'l Envtl L Rev. 1.
(co-author) “Looking Up, Down, and Sideways: Reconceiving Cumulative Effects Assessment as a Mindset” (2017) 62 EIAR 183.
(co-author), “Polyjural and Polycentric Sustainability Assessment: A Once-in-a-Generation Law Reform Opportunity” (2016) 30 J. Env. L. & Prac. 35.
“The Paris Agreement, Historic Breakthrough or High Stakes Experiment?” (2016) 6 Climate Law 1.
(co-author) “Fulfilling the Promise: Basic Components of Next Generation Environmental Assessment” (2016) 29 J. Env. L. & Prac. 257.
“Offshore Renewable Energy Governance in Nova Scotia: A Case Study of Tidal Energy in the Bay of Fundy” (2015) 29 Ocean Yearbook 271.
“The Sydney Tar Ponds Case: Shutting the Door on Environmental Class Action Suits in Nova Scotia?” (2015) 27 J. Env. L. & Prac. 279.
(with Rebecca Critchley) "The Role of Strategic Environmental Assessments in Improving the Governance of Emerging New Industries: A Case Study of Wind Developments in Nova Scotia" (2015) 11:1 JSDLP 87 - 114.
Member of Technical Advisory Committee on the new federal Impact Assessment Act, 2019 -
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Climate Law, 2013 –
Member of the Editorial Board, Lakehead Law Journal, 2014 -
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Canadian Environmental Regulation and Compliance News, 1996 –
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Ocean Yearbook, 2006 -
Member, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, 2008 -
Legal Advisor, Legal Response Initiative (offering legal advice to developing countries at the UN climate negotiations) 2012 –
Member, National Steering Committee, Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot, 2010 -
Founding Director of MEPIELAN Centre
Professor Emeritus of International Law & International Environmental Law
Evangelos Raftopoulos is Professor Emeritus of International Law & International Environmental Law, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, and the Founding Director of MEPIELAN Centre. He is also a Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (since 2016).,He has been elected as a Member of the Compliance Committee of the Barcelona Convention system (COP 21 of the Barcelona Convention, Napoli, Italy, 2-5 December 2019) and, recently, as Vice Chair of the Committee (18th Meeting of the Compliance Committee, Athens, Greece, 29-30 June 2022).
Under his Direction MEPIELAN CENTRE has become an officially accredited UNEP/MAP Partner (2013), a Member of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) (2016) and a Member of the MCSD Steering Committee (2019). He currently serves as a Rapporteur of the Steering Committee of the MCSD.
He has been a Visiting Scholar at Downing College, University of Cambridge (2015-2018), and the Director of the Postgraduate Programme Studies at the Department of International, European & Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens (2000-2018). He served, for more than two decades, as a special Legal Adviser to the Mediterranean Action Plan/United Nations Environment Programme (MAP/UNEP) (1987-2010), and was appointed as International Legal Adviser to the Greek Minister of Housing, Public Works and the Environment (1983-1985) and a Lawyer at the Athens Bar Association. He served as the founding Educational Counselor at the Institute of Continual Training, National Centre of Public Administration, Athens (1985-1993). As International Negotiator, he actively participated in more than 70 international environmental conferences and meetings since 1983.
Evangelos Raftopoulos holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in International Law from the University of Cambridge, UK, a Master Degree in International Law from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Law Degree (First Class) from the Faculty of Law, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He has been a Ford Foundation Southern European Fellow of International Law at the Yale Law School at Yale Law School, Yale University, USA (1980 – 1982).
International Negotiation: A Process of Relational Governance for International Common Interest Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019.
International Negotiations: Theory and Technique of Constructing International Common Interest (in Greek), Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014.
MEPIELAN E-BULLETIN, Editions 1-12, 2010-2019 (Editor and Contributor).
Conventional Environmental Governance and the Mediterranean or PLUS ULTRA (in Greek), Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens, 2006, Pp. xxii+376 *New Edition: Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014.
Contributions to International Environmental Negotiation in the Mediterranean Context (E. Raftopoulos – M. McConnell, eds.), MEPIELAN Studies in International Environmental Law and Negotiation – 2, Ant. N. Sakkoulas – Bruylant Publishers, Athens, 2004 *New Edition: Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014.
The New Regime of the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Environment – The Problem and the Texts of the Greek Translation (in Greek), MEPIELAN Studies in International Environmental Law and Negotiation – 1, Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens, 2003 *Second Edition, Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2015.
Course, Theory and Language of International Law - “Objectivity” or International Common Interest? (in Greek),Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens, 1997 *New Edition: Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014.
Barcelona Convention and Protocols – The Mediterranean Action Plan Regime, Simmonds & Hill Publishing Ltd., London, 1993.
The Inadequacy of the Contractual Analogy in the Law of Treaties, Publications of the Hellenic Institute of International & Foreign Law, Vol. 14, Alkyon Publishers, Athens, 1990.
“Sustainability Governance, Public Trust and the Conventional Protection of the Mediterranean Environment” (2013). In: Derecho Del Mar Y Sostenibilidad Ambiental En El Mediterráneo (ed. by José Juste Ruiz & Valentín Bou Franch), Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2013, Primera Parte, Aspectos Generales, pp. 35-58.
“The Mediterranean Response to Global Challenges: Environmental Governance and the Barcelona Convention System” (2011). In: The World Ocean in Globalization – Climate Change, Sustainable Fisheries, Biodiversity, Shipping, Regional Issues (ed. by Davor Vidas & Peter Johan Schei), Martinus Njhoff Publishers (Leiden – Boston), Chapter 27, pp. 507-532.
“The Polluter Pays Principle and Agriculture in Greece” (2009). In: Agriculture and the Polluter Pays Principle (ed. by Peggy Grossman), British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, chapter 3, pp. 61-145.
“Conventional Environmental Governance and the Emerging Public Role of the Individual – The Mediterranean Perspective” (2006). Annuaire International des Droits de l’ Homme, Vol.1, 2006, Ant. N. Sakkoulas – Bruylant, 2006, pp. 299-324.
“Aspects of the Course of International Environmental Law from Stockholm to Johannesburg (1972-2002)” (in Greek).The Critical Review of Legal Theory and Practice, 2003/1, pp. 81-113.
“‘Relational Governance’ For Marine Pollution Incidents in the Mediterranean: Transformations, Development and Prospects” (2001). The International Journal of Marine & Coastal Law, Vol. 16, pp. 41-75.
“The Crisis Over the Imia Rocks and the Aegean Sea Regime: International Law as a Language of Common Interest” (2000). In THE AEGEAN SEA AFTER THE COLD WAR – SECURITY AND LAW OF THE SEA ISSUES (ed. by A. Chircop, A. Gerolymatos and J. Iatrides), Macmillan Press Ltd. & St. Martin’s Press, Inc., Chap. 9, pp. 134-151.
“Sustainable Development and the Mediterranean Action Plan Regime: Legal and Institutional Aspects” (1995). In: Regional Seas Towards Sustainable Development (ed. by Belfiore - Lucia - Pesaro), International Centre for Coastal and Ocean Policy Studies (ICCOPS) and International Geographical Union (IGU), Franco Angeli Publisher, Milan, Italy, 1995, pp. 197-229.
“The Mediterranean Action Plan: Appraisal of a Model for Regional Cooperation” (1993). In: Protecting the Gulf of Aqaba – A Regional Environmental Challenge, Environmental Law Institute (ILA), Washington, D.C., Chapter 15, pp. 315-357.
“The Barcelona Convention System for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution : An International Trust at Work”(1992).The International Journal of Estuarine and Coastal Law, Vol. 7, pp. 27-41.
“The Mediterranean Action Plan: A Paradigm for Re-thinking International Law” (1990). In: Essays on the New Law of the Sea 2 – Contributions to the Study of Comparative & International Law (ed. by Budislav Vukas), Vol. 24, Zagreb, pp. 243-279.
MEPIELAN Centre, as a UNEP/MAP Partner since 2013, has consistently supported Education as an implementing element of Sustainability Governance in the Mediterranean. The initiative for the development of a joint MEPIELAN Centre – UNEP/MAP international postgraduate programme on Mediterranean Environmental Governance and Sustainability was taken by MEPIELAN Centre and was repeatedly raised by its Director, Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, during the Meetings and Conferences of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention system (2015-2017), as well as during the 17th Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) Meeting (July 2017), and it has been reflected in the Reports of all these Meetings.
In the light of this, UNEP/MAP Coordinating Unit in cooperation with MEPIELAN Centre organized a closed international workshop at its premises on 23 November 2017. At the workshop, the UNEP/MAP Secretariat to the Barcelona Convention, was represented by Mr. Gaetano Leone (UNEP/MAP Coordinator), Ms. Tatjana Hema (UNEP/MAP Deputy Coordinator), Dr. Ilias Mavroeidis (UNEP/MAP Governance Officer), Ms. Luisa Rodriguez Lucas (UNEP/MAP Legal Officer), and Ms. Gyorgyi Gurban (UNEP/MAP Project Manager (EcAp)). MEPIELAN Centre, was represented by Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, Dr. Alexandros Kailis, and Dr. Socrates Zachos.
Finally, the meeting set up the Steering Committee of the Programme as follows: UNEP/MAP representatives, Prof. Evangelos Raftopoulos MEPIELAN Director (MEPIELAN Centre/Panteion University of Athens), Prof. Nilufer Oral (Istanbul Bilgi University), Prof. Tullio Scovazzi (University of Milan/Bicocca), Prof. Jose Juste Ruiz (University of Valencia), and Dr. Maria Augusta Paim (C-EENRG).
In a later development, this Programme was included in the the Voluntary National Review (VNR) of Greece on the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as an Example and Good Practice of Research and Educational actions promoting the SDGs implementation, which was submitted to the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, in July 2018 (pp. 90-91).
MEPIELAN Centre represented by its Director, Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos participated in the 18th Meeting of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) held in Budva, Montenegro, from 11 to 13 June 2019. 28 out of 40 MCSD Members (14 Members representing Contracting Parties and 14 Members for Stakeholders Groups) and 7 Observers were represented. At the opening of the Meeting, the MAP Coordinator, Mr. Gaetano Leone, stated that “the unique mechanism that the MCSD represents in the panorama of Regional Seas allows to look at sustainable development in its entirety” and he encouraged the MCSD Members and Observers to pursue their partnerships for rendering fully compatible socio-economic development and sustainable use of the resources of the Mediterranean Sea and coast.
The Commission, in compliance with its Rules of Procedure elected its new Steering Committee (a President, five Vice-Presidents and a Rapporteur) as follows: President: Montenegro (Ms. Ivana Stojanovic); Vice-President: Italy (pending nomination); Vice-President: Morocco (Mr. Mohammed Maktit); Vice-President: Turkey (pending nomination); Vice-President: UCLG (Local Authorities Group) Mr. Mohamed Boussraoui; Vice-President: UfM (Intergovernmental Organizations Group) Ms. Alessandra Sensi; Rapporteur: MEPIELAN (Scientific Community Group), Mr. Evangelos Raftopoulos.
The MCSD Meeting discussed the Progress Report of the Work done after the 17th Meeting of the MCSD (Simplified Peer Review Mechanism (SIMPEER), Mediterranean Sustainability Dashboard, Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD) Flagship Initiatives, the 2019 State of the Environment and Development Report and MED2050 Foresight Study) and the Members provided positive impact. It also discussed the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – Sustainable Development Goals and the MSSD, which was organized in two levels. First, by reflecting most recent Global and Regional Processes, where the three UN Regional Commissions that cover the Mediterranean Basin (UN-ECA, UN-ECE, UN-ESCWA) presented the progress in implementing the 2030 Agenda at the regional level, and the MCSD, for the first time, interacted with them, identifying the need for establishing with them an extensive institutional relationship focused on the promotion of the MAP-Barcelona Convention system among their Member States and on the need for concrete action to integrate sustainability considerations at the local level, for increasing transboundary cooperation, as well as for synergies between environmental and socio-economic targets. Second, by implementing SDGs and the MSSD at the National Level, where the Contracting Parties participating in the SIMPEER activity and/or contributing to the Voluntary National Review (VNR) process at the UN High-level Political Forum (HLPF) shared their experiences. It was agreed that the common challenges experienced by the Contracting Parties at this level were, mainly, the need to the enhanced engagement of stakeholders and civil society in the governance of the national implementation of SDGs and the need for capacity building.
The Meeting further discussed the MSSD Good Practices, Exchange of Experiences and Challenges. It focused on the MSSD Flagship Initiatives and welcomed the Concept Notes drafted by COMPSUD, MIO-ECSDE, MEPIELAN and the Secretariat (SCP/RAC) to put in motion four MSSD Flagship Initiatives addressing challenges and gaps indicated by the MSSD and strengthening cooperation opportunities.
He also introduced the MEPIELAN’S contribution to the Concept Note developed by COMPSUD and MIO-ECSDE about encouraging the accession to and implementation of the Aarhus Convention (putting in motion MSSD Flagship Initiative 6.2.3). He presented in a PP MEPIELAN’s specific contribution on the law and governance dimension of this Flagship Initiative and the specific activities.
The Meeting also discussed the Green, Blue and Circular Economy, including Sustainable Consumption and Production. It stressed the importance of developing and strengthening measures towards the achievement of sustainable tourism in the Mediterranean region, the need for embedding it further into the Barcelona Convention system, with explicit targeted outputs, for strongly engaging the private sector to achieve a real change of the tourism sector towards sustainability, for addressing mass tourism management and planning on the basis of ecosystem-based integrated marine and coastal planning processes (ICZM, MSP). The Meeting also recognized the value of the Mediterranean Sustainability Dashboard, stressed its nature as a living document and the need for its continuing and optimal alignment and consistency with the ongoing global processes on SDGs Indicators, ensuring that all indicators are fully measurable or effectively implementable. It further discussed the Draft Roadmap for the participatory MSSD Mid-Term Evaluation as a good opportunity to enhance the Strategy and make it more efficient.
Discussing the 2019 Report on the State of the Environment and Development in the Mediterranean (SoED 2019), the MCSD Members underlined the high relevance of the Report, the large body of evidence and knowledge collected and the urgency to provide updated information to decision-makers and stakeholders, and made comments and certain recommendations.
The Director of MEPIELAN recommended to refer in a key message to the principles of resilience and non-regression, new relational legal concepts, such as the “public trust approach”, interlinkages and creative participatory processes for more effective implementation of environmental sustainability and multilateral governance.
In the light of this discussion, the Commission concluded that the reports under preparation should “include on the balance of environmental and socio-economic content and on thematic areas to be addressed, innovative relational legal concepts, participatory processes and environmental law principles implementing sustainability, sources of data in accordance with international best practices, dissemination and use of report and broader and targeted communication of its findings.”
Finally, the MCSD Members expressed their opinions on the integration of sustainability considerations into the draft Programme of Work, underlining “the importance of developing national monitoring and assessment capacity, the need for further harmonization among information platforms at national and regional level, the role of private sector and Parliamentarians, and the urgent need to strengthen the information and communication capacity 0f the MAP – Barcelona Convention system”. Regarding the preparation of the COP 21 Ministerial Declaration, the Commission stressed the need to “focus on mechanisms, actions and tools to achieve sustainable development” and it indicated “the development of adequate institutional set-up, technologies and transferable knowledge, and cultural aspects, including education and awareness raising.”
The MCSD Commission agreed on the final form of the draft Conclusions and Recommendations presented on the last day of the Meeting.
MEPIELAN Centre, represented by its Director, Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, participated in the MAP Focal Points Meeting, held in Athens on 10-13 September 2019, to examine the progress on activities carried out during the 2018-2019 biennium, the Programme of Work for the next two years (2019-2020) and several draft decisions to be submitted for adoption to the 21st Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (COP21, 2-5 December 2019, Naples, Italy). Most of the Contracting Parties (21 Mediterranean States and the European Union) were represented. Partners of UNEP/MAP, including non-governmental organizations, United Nations bodies, specialized agencies, convention secretariats and intergovernmental organizations attend the meeting as observers.
During four days of deliberations (10-13 September 2019), MAP Focal Points examined a host of draft decisions pertaining to pollution prevention and reduction, marine biodiversity and the Blue Economy in the Mediterranean region. They also discussed a draft road map for the possible designation of the Mediterranean Sea as an Emission Control Area (ECA) for Sulphur Oxides (SOx) under Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL). The UNEP/MAP strategic orientations were also in focus at the meeting as Focal Points discussed a roadmap for the preparation of the Medium-Term Strategy (2022-2027). The process will be driven by the Contracting Parties and will involve consultations with stakeholders.
MEPIELAN Centre represented by its Director, Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos and the MEPIELAN Research Fellow Dr. Socrates Zachos, participated in a Regional Stakeholders Consultation Meeting to contribute to the preparation of the Ministerial Declaration of the 21st Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (COP 21). The Meeting, the first of its kind, was organized and convened by the UNEP/MAP Barcelona Convention Secretariat and was held on 24-25 October 2019 in Athens. It was attended by of more than 20 representatives of several civil society and intergovernmental organizations working in the Mediterranean region.
UNEP/MAP Secretariat presented the main elements of the COP 21 Ministerial Declaration (Naples Declaration) and the milestones of the ongoing participatory process, which included an online consultation involving members of the Mediterranean Commission for Sustainable Development (MCSD). Then, a roundtable discussion was held, coordinated by the Secretariat, where the five possible thematic priorities of the Ministerial Declaration were discussed which included marine litter, marine protected areas and biodiversity, climate change, blue economy and a guidance section mainly covering the engagement of stakeholders and international organizations. Representatives of UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centres, UNEP/MAP Partners and other stakeholders provided their insights, suggestions and proposals on the thematic priorities of COP 21 and on the more effective implementation and governance of the Barcelona Convention system.
Together with Prof. José Ruiz Juste (Member of the CC), Mr. Sverio Civili (f. MED POL Coordinator) and Prof. Michel Prieur (f. Member of the CC)
Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, Director of MEPIELAN Centre, addressing the COP 21 Ministerial Policy Review Session, made a statement laying emphasis on the need for innovation to support transition towards better environmental and sustainability governance, more effective legal approaches oriented to trusteeship for addressing the current legal gaps, and better, structured ways for strengthening the culture and practice of consensus-building, dialogue and communication between and among all participants.
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Professor of Political Science
University of Massachussetts-Amherst, USA
Dr Konstantinos Tsimonis is a Lecturer in Chinese Society at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. He has a PhD from SOAS where he also taught courses on Chinese, East Asian and comparative politics. His work concentrates on the ways institutional actors in China’s authoritarian polity adapt in order to perform new roles in the context of marketization and globalization, and their impact on policy-making and state-society relations. Under this broad theme, he has explored: 1) the efforts by state feminist and youth organisations in China to promote policies on women and youth, 2) the evolution of China’s anticorruption institutions and policies under Xi Jinping, 3) the internationalization of Chinese SOEs and their global footprint on industrial relations and environmental standards. He is currently working on a British Academy funded research project on China’s “Balkan Corridor”. Konstantinos has also collaborated with civil society organisations, media and the private sector on various consultancy projects.
LL.M. in Public International Law from the University of Kent, United Kingdom
Maria Striga is a LL.M. Research Fellow at MEPIELAN Centre. She holds a Bachelor Degree in International and European Studies ('Excellent') from the Panteion University of Athens, Greece (2012), and a Master of Laws in Public International Law ('Distinction') from the University of Kent, United Kingdom (2015).
From March 2016 to July 2016, she served as a Trainee at the Maritime Safety Unit of the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), European Commission, dealing with maritime safety and prevention pollution issues. From February 2017 to December 2017, she worked as a Case Officer at the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), while since January 2018 she has been working as a Vulnerability Expert at the same EU body. Since January 2018 she has been working as a Vulnerability Expert at the same EU body mainly identifying the applicants who are in need of special guarantees in the asylum process under the EU Law and conducting best interest assessments for the children asylum seekers.
In the context of her extracurricular activities, she has attended numerous conferences and seminars concerning International Environmental Law and Sustainable Development. In July 2014, her research paper entitled 'Political Parties and Human Rights - A comparative analysis on the Greek constitutional order under the light of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights' was awarded the second prize in the annual competition on Human Rights, held by the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights. In January 2015, her academic essay entitled '‘Critically Evaluate the Contribution Made by the Common but Differentiated Responsibility Principle to the Development of International Environmental Law' was granted the first prize in a student competition held by the Law School of the University of Kent.
Within the context of her activities in MEPIELAN Centre, her special interests lie in the areas of Environmental Governance Regimes, Environmental Diplomacy, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as Public Participation in Environmental Governance.
The United Nations General Assembly Adopts the First-ever Resolution on Illicit Trafficking in Wildlife', MEPIELAN E-Bulletin, Panteion University of Athens, published on 28 November 2015;
'The Nagoya Protocol Heralds A New Era for Sustainable Development', Kent LLM Blog, Kent Law School, published on 3 December 2014;
'Yasuni- ITT Initiative: A Case of Innovation in Global Sustainability Governance', Ourania Anastasiadou & Maria Striga, MEPIELAN E-Bulletin, Panteion University of Athens, published on 12 November 2012
International Environmental Governance and Environmental Diplomacy
International Human Rights Law
International Migration Law
Vulnerable Groups in Asylum Context
Child Protection
Governance of Maritime Transport at EU level
Vulnerability Expert at the European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
Alexandros Kailis is a special advisor on International and European Affairs, and post-doctoral research associate in MEPIELAN Centre. He holds a Bachelor degree in International and European Studies from the Panteion University of Athens, and a Master of Laws (International Law, LLM) from the University of Southampton, UK. In 2015, he was awarded a PhD degree by the Panteion University of Athens for a thesis on the science-policy interface in the negotiation process of international environmental regimes, under the supervision of Professor and Director of MEPIELAN Evangelos Raftopoulos.
He has been working as a trainee, in the European Parliament and the European Commission (DG MARE). Between 2007 and 2011, he served as a Policy Officer to the Policy Development and Co-ordination Directorate of the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), European Commission. His main responsibilities included: development and implementation of the Integrated Maritime Policy of the European Union, at international, European and national level, and participation in the negotiation process of the European institutions in the field of maritime governance.
Since 2015, he has been a special advisor on International and European Affairs in the Presidency of the Hellenic Government. His main duties, include, among others: monitor and coordinate, at national level, the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and follow up the legislative work and the decisions taken by European Institutions and international organizations, in areas of particular importance for the Greek government.
His main research interests and publications lie in the fields of International Negotiations, International Organizations, International Environmental Law and Negotiations, EU law and policy, and sustainable development governance.
Kailis, A. The influential role of consensual knowledge in international environmental agreements: negotiating the implementing measures of the Mediterranean Land-Based Sources Protocol (1980), International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Vol.17, No.2, April 2017, pp. 295-311
Kailis, A. Technological, Economic and Natural Knowledge in Managing Environmental Problems: The Experience of Negotiating the Protocol for the Protection of the Mediterranean against Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities (1996), Ocean Yearbook, Vol. 30, Issue 1 (January 2016), pp. 91-128.
Kailis, A. Mediterranean States Pave the Way for the Development of an Integrated Marine Litter Management Regime, MEPIELAN Centre E-Bulletin, December 2014, Panteion University of Athens, Greece
Kailis, A. Promoting an Integrated Maritime Strategy for the Atlantic Ocean Area: The European Union Leads the Way, MEPIELAN Centre E-Bulletin, February 2012, Panteion University of Athens, Greece
Kailis, A. Towards the Adoption of an Integrated Approach to the Governance of the Arctic Ocean-The European Perspective. Ocean Yearbook, Vol. 24, Issue 1 (September 2010), pp. 445-473.
The External Relations of the European Union: Law and Policy, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2019
Law and Theory of International Organizations, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2016-2018
International Negotiations for the Construction of international Common Interest, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2019
Teaching Associate
Theory and Techniques of International Negotiations, Postgraduate Studies Programme, (M.A), Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2011-2019
International Environmental Governance: The Legal Regime of the Protection of the Mediterranean against Pollution from Land-Based Sources, Postgraduate Studies Programme, (M.A), Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2013 – 2015
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