2010 Speakers
List of speakers*
Prime Ministers
George A. Papandreou, Prime Minister, Hellenic Republic
Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister, Malta
Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister, Palestinian National Authority
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister, Turkey
Ministers
Fatmir Mediu, Minister of Environment, Forestry and Water Administration, Albania
Dimiter Tzanchev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria
Demetris Eliades, Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Cyprus
Maged George, Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Egypt
Nexhati Jakupi, Minister of Environment and Physical Planning, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Brice Lalonde, Ambassador in Charge of the International Negotiations for Climate Changes and former Minister for Environment, France
Ze’ev Benjamin Begin, Minister of State, Israel
Tina Birbili, Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Hellenic Republic
Spyros Kouvelis, Deputy Foreign Minister, Hellenic Republic
Ba Housseynou Hamady, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Mauritania
Oliver Dulic, Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, Serbia
Kaowkab al-Sabah Dayeh, Minister of the State for Environment Affairs, Syria
Veysel Eroğlu, Minister of Environment and Forestry, Turkey
Other Keynote Speakers*
Shamshad Akhtar, Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa, The World Bank
Marin Anton, State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Forests, Romania
Guy Clausse, Director of the Convergence and Environment Division, European Investment Bank
Stavros Dimas, Former European Commissioner for the Environment, European Commission
Jose-Maria Figueres, Former President, Costa Rica
Demetres Karavellas, WWF Mediterranean Initiative
Mats Karlsson, Director, the Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration
George Kolyvas, Official of the European Commission and Special Advisor to the Minister for Regional Development and Competitiveness, Hellenic Republic
Dimitri Lalas, Councellor, Minister’s office, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Hellenic Republic
Anil Markandya, Scientific Director, The Basque Climate Change Research Centre
Philippe Maystadt, President, European Investment Bank
Roberto Menia, Secretary of State, Ministry for Environment and the Protection of Natural Resources and Sea, Italy
Charles Milhaud, Chairman of the Taskforce to Examine Co-financing in the Mediterranean, and President, French Banking Federation
Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Costas Papanicolas, President, Cyprus Institute
Simon Reddy, Executive Director, C40
Panayiotis Roumeliotis, Deputy Secretary-General for Energy, Union for the Mediterranean
Nicola Ruzinski, State Secretary, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning & Construction, Croatia
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Michael Scoullos, Chairman, Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean
Maria Luisa Silva Mejias, Officer-in-Charge and Deputy Coordinator, UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan
George Tselioudis, Research Scientist, Academy of Athens and NASA/GISS-Columbia University
Peter Vis,Head of Cabinet of Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action, European Commission
*in alphabetical order
