Prof. Ali Rhouma is a senior project officer at PRIMA Foundation responsible for Nexus Water–Energy–Food–Ecosystems and Farming systems. He holds an agricultural engineering degree (INAT-Tunisia), a European Master in the environment at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in plant production and protection (UCBL-France, INAT-Tunisia). He has served on many boards, consortia, and committees internationally and locally, and has been a
member of several international committees. He has more than 20 years of experience in agricultural research in Tunisia and in the Mediterranean region and led several research and innovation projects. He is a co-author and author of 70 publications and four national patents. He participated in several European projects (FP6, FP7, H2020) aiming to reinforce S&T policy dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean region. He previously worked at IRESA-Ministry of Agriculture - Tunisia as the director of the Research Department.
José Maria Gil is the Director of CREDA and Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He is also responsible for the Information Systems and Food Supply Chains research arm of CREDA. His current research focuses on the economics of food quality and safety, and related policy issues with respect to the consumer, the food industry, and trade. Another major research interest concerns the analysis of the competitiveness of food supply chains. Further, he has considerable experience in econometrics and statistical methods for analyzing food chains and household purchasing behavior.
