Mediterranean Sustainability Partners

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This is the first of a series of episodes interviewing the Trocadéro Forum Institute’s Senior and Junior Ambassadors .This interview is in French .Voici le premier entretien avec notre Ambassadrice, Aurore Vuillemin , qui est actuellement étudiante en deuxième année de Master en Hotel Management à l’ecole Ferrières , et qui est également en stage dans un hotel 4 étoiles en Alsace .

In continuing our “Ethical Sustainable Leadership” conference series , we are pleased to welcome Edward Darling and Dr. Athan Fox on November 13 at 11h CET.In cooperation with the Lifemap Foundation (https://thelifemap.foundation/), this conference will highlight the work of the foundation and the workshop we will launch in 2026 .We will learn more about the foundation and its work and lay out the objectives of our 30h workshop .

This the fourth conference in our “Ethical Sustainable Leadership” series on October 30th at 18h CET/12h EST.We presented the four modules that comprise this Block 3 of our Executive Masters program with the following professors : Admiral (ret.) Gerard Valin, Marie-Hélène Hirtz, Ambassador Omar Samad and Marisa Zalabak.

This is the first conference in our « Ethical Sustainable Leadership » series .In this podcast , we bring together Drs. Professors Zaki Sari and Haitham Ramadan to discuss the importance of Industrial Transformation Management .We discuss the different modules available in our Executive Masters program at the Trocadéro Forum Institute .For more information , do go to our website : https://trocaderoforum-institute.org/executive-seminars-2/

Here are the segments and main discussion points of this podcast with Georgios Karakatsanis : Segment 1 : Circular Economy; Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) , the competition on global supply chains' shift ,Why Scope 3 environmental impacts (on supply chains) account for ~75% of total lifecycle impacts , how ML/AI can deal with Scope 3 Greenwashing; the elephant in the room of Critical and Strategic Raw Materials (CSRMs).Segment 2 : Farm to Fork (the basic lifecycle rationale from the farm to the consumer) and why EVO went one "F" further (to "Finance"). Ecological Finance Engineering ; intergenerational equity and what the Norwegian Fund teaches us; why ESG is a good place to set a tent but not to build a house.Segment 3 : EVOTROPIA Academy; what need and market gap of Sustainability professionals' training and young generations we covered; the underlying physics (i.e. thermodynamics) of Sustainability; Artificial or Ambient Intelligence? A recommendation for the EU in the context of global IT collaboration.Short bio Mr. George Karakatsanis is a Natural Resource Economic Designer and Financial Engineer. He has long research, business and consulting expertise as economic designer for the optimization of fuel, non-fuel, agricultural and biological resources for corporations and states. He is the Founder, Director and Chief Economist of EVOTROPIA Economic Architectures that specializes on natural capital classification and valuation methods, advanced data analytics for geoeconomic and supply networks’ modelling, Evolutionary and Machine Learning methods for Industrial Symbiosis and the structuring of ecological finance and investment instruments. He is the scientific coordinator of several EU-funded and corporate research projects on natural resource economics, critical raw materials, soil bio-remediation and Regenerative Agriculture. He is a graduate of Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), holding an MSc and PhD from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) on natural capital econometrics. He has extensive professional experience in environmental banking, ecological investments, risk management, and business continuity. In the period 2014-2016, he collaborated with Technische Universität München (TUM), receiving a DAAD scholarship as a Guest Lecturer and Researcher in the international research program NEXUS Energy-Water-Food on the conflict resolution for the management of water resources in the Nile Basin, as well as a Guest Scientist in the Oscar von Miller Forum (OvMF), where he organized and conducted several workshops and lectures on the field of Natural Resource Economics for Engineers. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed works and more than 30 educational articles on natural resource economics. Since 2014, he is a research affiliate of the Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Resources Utilization of the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA. Since 2020, he is scientific advisor of the Association of the Greek Manufacturers of Packaging and Materials (AGMPM), Director of the Special Committee for Circular Economy and the Built Environment of the Sustainable Building Council Greece (SBC-GR) and member of the Hellenic Solid Waste Management Association (HSWMA), while since 2023 he is a member of the Board of Directors of FILAIOS Olive Oil Club.

Data protection, disinformation and hybrid threats: impact on national security in the digital ageThe objective of this talk is to provide a view on the problem of the importance and role of strategic global policies and investments in the protection and resiliency of critical infrastructure, national and international, in the context of modern hybrid threats. Disinformation, broadly defined as false information intended to mislead, emanates from both states and non-state actors, and affects communities across the globe. Fake news and deception are ages-old phenomena, but the digital age has facilitated the amplification and manipulation of false information to an unprecedented extent threw internet and new media. Acknowledging the importance of disinformation and its consequences and considering the fact that in future wars the primary target of the attack is going to be critical infrastructure (one or more) the cyberspace will be a tool for conducting attack(s) threw hybrid threats. Potential solution to the problem of insufficient state protection of critical infrastructure should be observed through the prism of building investment policies in broader national strategies for protecting critical infrastructure as well as national security budget defence expenditures/allocations leading to higher level of protection and resiliency of critical infrastructure.Short bioProf. dr. sc. Marija Boban, Full Professor at Universtiy of Split Faculty of Law in Split is expert in the field of personal data protection, GDPR, information security and smart technologies; Head of Department of Economic, Financial and Information Sciences and Statistics, Faculty of Law, University of Split; Director and owner of the consulting company TechFuturo innovation specialized in business consulting in the digital age. Author and co-author of 7 books, more than 140 scientific papers in the field of personal data protection, cybersecurity, citizen’s privacy, AI, robotics, right of access to information and computer forensics from which 45 scientific papers are cited in the Scopus and Web of science databases. Teaches courses Informatics in Law, Cyber crimes, Intellectual Property and Information Security, National Security Systems and Electronic Business at the Faculty of Law in Split and at the Department of Forensic Sciences at the University of Split. Also for many year is external associate professor of the Polytechnic "Marko Marulić" in Knin and the Faculty of Law, University of Mostar. As invited speaker and lecturer has participated in more than150 international and domestic scientific and professional conferences with the presentation of papers published in proceedings and relevant scientific and professional journals. She has won a number of awards and recognitions and through her many years of scientific and professional work has profiled her as one of the most recognized experts in the Republic of Croatia in cyber security, personal data protection, e-Health, e-Government and computer forensics.