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Laura Giuliano is Director of the Institute of Coastal Marine Envioronment (IAMC) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. Before then, she was Science and Policy advisor at (CIESM) where she was mainly in charge of developing innovative research in sectors of interest to the 22 Member States, and of launching CIESM co‐operations with the EU, and with international networks of Funding Agencies. Her efforts in this direction range
from the conception and organization of the ‘CIESM‐SUB’ multidisciplinary oceanographic
campaigns to the advising of Funding Agencies on Mediterranean common marine research
priorities and regional specificities. These lead to the development of the Marine‐Maritime
Platform MARCOM+ (EU, fp7) in liaison with other international agencies (ICES, ESF‐MB,
EUCC, WATERBORNE), where Dr. Giuliano has been directly accountable to the DG for
leading the CIESM contribution.
Fully engaged in the organization of two successive CIESM Congresses (Turkey 2007; Italy,
2010), she had major responsibilities as diplomatic contact with the hosting country in the
last one (which saw a record number of over 1000 participants from 40 countries, and over
900 communications in 50 distinct sessions).
Dr. Giuliano brought her expertise in marine biotechnology to extend CIESM multi‐
disciplinary coverage in this direction. Using research cooperation as an opportunity to
promote better policies, she did match the CIESM research programme on biotechnology
with a multi‐cultural / multi‐sector analytical exercise aiming to consolidate IP ‐related issues
and the equitable sharing of benefits derived from marine genetic resources in the
Mediterranean region. Such a complex action evolved along research workshops 102 large‐
scale debates on Mediterranean common priorities, and includes a targeted study that is
developed in cooperation with WTO (Intellectual Property Division). Dr. Giuliano
commitment includes efforts in benchmarking Mediterranean national strategies, facilitating
debates on common strategic options, spreading baseline protocols, promoting mutualised
instrumentation and observatories, etc