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Grammenos Mastrojeni

Senior Deputy Secretary General Union for the Mediterranean

BIO
Grammenos Mastrojeni is an Italian diplomat, professor and writer who has focused for the past 25 years on the societal, geo-strategic and economic impacts of environmental
degradation, as well as on topics related to environmental protection, human cohesion,
peace and security. He has taught sustainability and conflict resolution in various
universities in Italy and abroad, and in 2009, the Ottawa University in Canada entrusted
him with the first class by a University on the issue of Environment, resources and
geostrategy.
Formerly, until August 2019, he was the Coordinator for the Environment and Head of the Science-Policy Interface at the Italian Development Cooperation, heading Italian
delegations on lands, water and oceans and joining negotiations on climate and
biodiversity. Chair of the UN Mountain Partnership, and Co Chair of the Global Islands
Partnership, he is President of the largest Italian association for sustainable development education “Isola della Sostenibilità” and member of the Scientific Boards of numerous university courses and entities.
Author of numerous articles and official reports on the environment, he published 8 books including “Greenhouse effect, war effect”, written together with the climatologist Antonello Pasini (Chiarelettere, 2017), and “The Ark of Noah – Saving together our Common Home” that ranked as best-selling essays. Among his publications there are also “The indissoluble cycle. Peace, environment, development and freedom in the global balance” (Vita e Pensiero, 2002); “The necessary eco-revolution” (Italian Scientific Editions, 2008); “Now or never. A decade, and not beyond, to save ourselves and the Earth” (Amazon, 2016).