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Coordinating Unit

Tatjana Hema has strong experience of intergovernmental processes, especially in the area of marine and coastal environment, backed by solid scientific knowledge on chemical engineering and marine pollution issues.

Ms. Hema graduated in Chemical Engineering and specialized in Environmental Management and Technologies. She joined the UN in 2003, after twelve years of service as a professor in Tirana University and five years as a Senior Manager in the National Environment Agency of Albania and Deputy Minister of Environment. Since then, she has covered UN assignments of different roles in MAP Barcelona Convention Secretariat addressing policy, governance and institutional aspects of the MAP system, as well as marine pollution assessment and control. In 2016 she was awarded the UNEP BAOBAB Staff Award in the category “Environmental Service Award”, which aims at exemplifying those who demonstrate outstanding effort and dedication in their field of expertise to enhance environmental sustainability and conservation at local, national, regional or international levels. Since 2016 she was UNEP/MAP Deputy Coordinator.

She holds a PhD from the University of Tirana obtained in 1994 and a Masters’ degree on Environmental Management and Technologies from the Federal Polytechnic University of Lausanne, obtained in 1995.

Ms. Hema is a national of Albania.

Staff position level: D-1
Region: Eastern Europe

Ms. Soumaya El Halas
Associate Administrative Officer (UNV)

Ms. Nathalie Gomez
Assistant to the Coordinator

Ms. Rena Cavoura
Programme Management Assistant
 

Ms. Marie Daher Corthay
Information Officer

Ms. Anastasia Vergiris
Information Assistant
 

Ms. Olfat Hamdan
Programme Management Officer

Mr. Erol Cavus
Programme Management Officer - Pollution

Ms. Jelena Knezevic
Programme Management Officer - Monitoring and Assessment

Ms. Maria Avrameas
Team Assistant
 

Mr. Ilias Mavroeidis
Programme Management Officer

Mr. Ihab Tarek
Legal Officer

Ms. Patrizia Busolini
Programme Management Officer - Socio-Economic Activities / Sustainable Development (including Secretariat of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development)

Ms. Elli Sfyroeras
Programme Management Assistant
 

Mr. Christos Ioakeimidis
Programme Management Officer - QSR

Ms. Samar Kilani
Programme Management Officer - EcAp MED PLUS Project

Mr. Marc Attallah
Associate Programme Management Officer - SEMPA Project

Ms. Zsuzsanna Sandor
Associate Finance and Budget Officer - SEMPA Project
 

Mr. Mohamad Kayyal
Programme Management Officer

Mr. Ertan Ozturk
Programme Management Officer (technical)

Mr. Fabien Makon Ma Mbog 
Associate Finance and Budget Officer

Ms. Shelley Farrington Gavalas
Programme Management Assistant
 

Ms. Kumiko Yatagai
Administrative/Fund Management Officer

Ms. Sylvie Fortin
Administrative Assistant - Human resources

Mr. Andreas Tsiamitros
Meetings and Procurement Assistant

Mr. Georgios Trikoupis
Finance and Budget Assistant

Mr. Apostolos Apostolopoulos
Administrative Assistant - Payments and Travel

Mr. Dimitrios Boumpoukas
Team Assistant
 

Regional Activity Centers (RAC)

Information and Communication Regional Activity Centre (INFO/RAC)
Ms. Lorenza Babbini, Director

Plan Bleu Regional Activity Centre (PB/RAC)
Mr. Antoine Lafitte, Acting Director

Priority Actions Programme Regional Activity Centre (PAP/RAC)
Ms. Daria Povh Škugor, Director

Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC)
Mr. Ivan Sammut, Head of Office

Specially Protected Areas Regional Activity Centre (SPA/RAC)
Mr. Elyes Hamza, Director

Sustainable Consumption and Production Regional Activity Centre (SCP/RAC-MEDWAVES)
Mr. Roger Garcia Noguera

Regional Activity Centre on Climate Change (CC/RAC)
Mr. Levent Kuzu, Director