Dr. Ilias Mavroeidis is Programme Management Officer responsible for Governance issues, 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 Black Sea Economic Cooperation, the 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 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.