Xenia Loizidou

Dr. Xenia I. Loizidou is a Civil Engineer (National Technical University of Athens) and Coastal Engineer (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine of London, MSc, DIC in River, Estuary and Coastal Engineering) and she holds a PhD on participatory decision-making process for the integrated management of common resources from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 1990 she has been working as an international expert on issues relevant to coastal erosion management, Integrated Natural Systems Management, adaptation to climate change, decision support systems, entrepreneurship, gender equality, blue and green growth. She has worked in over 50 countries, and she has been a member of several European and international expert groups and networks as executive coastal engineer and sustainability expert. She has been awarded the title of the Ambassador of Mediterranean Coasts 2019 – 2020, by the UN Environment/ PAPA/RAC and the Governments of all Mediterranean countries. Since May 2020 she is UN International Expert in the Compliance Committee for the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols. Since March 2020 she is Member of the Executive Board of the SDSN Cyprus (Sustainability Development Solutions Network), a global initiative by the UN. She cooperates with international organizations and entities such as EU, the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, UN, WWF et al.