Dr Stella Tsani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in sustainable development, energy, natural resource management, and economic policy. She is the 2025 EUSEW Women in Energy Award winner, honored by the European Commission for her contributions to Europe's energy transition. In 2022, she became the first scholar in Greece to join the Global Young Academy, where she coordinates activities on sustainable development, foresight, and innovation. 

Dr Tsani engages regularly in prestigious actions at the science-policy interface. She is lead author of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7), the United Nations’ flagship environmental assessment, contributing to the economic and financial transformations necessary for the sustainability transition. She has supported IPCC as an expert contributor to the IPCC 7th Assessment Report scoping and reviewer for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere.  Dr Tsani is an elected member of the InterAcademy Partnership Policy Advisory Committee, GYA Young Academies Science Advice Structure (YASAS) delegate, and expert member of the International Science Council Initiative on Science Advice for Public Policy in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region.

She serves on expert boards, including the European Commission’s  Cohesion for Transitions (C4T) Community of Practice, Just Transition Platform, Water4All SRIA update, Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Institutes of Economic Sciences Board of Directors,  MED2050 foresight group, UNEP/Mediterranean Action Plan Working Group on Ocean Economy and Sustainable Finance, ORCID Researcher Advisory Council, International Science Council water expert delegate to the UN Water conference, as well as European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Body of Knowledge expert and start-up mentor. Dr Tsani is a contributor to the International Energy Agency (IEA) Clean Energy Innovation Policies in Emerging and Developing Economies report. She is a Smithsonian Science Education Center Scientist Ambassador for the  Network for Emergent Socio-Scientific Thinking (NESST) and has supported the development of the “Ocean” youth guide.

Dr. Tsani has coordinated, advised, and worked in 40+ international research projects (EU, UNEP, EEA, World Bank, Bank of Greece) and is an expert evaluator for funding agencies such as the Norwegian Research Council, Kazakhstan National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation,  French National Research Agency and the Onassis Foundation.

Her interdisciplinary research applies systems perspective and economic tools to address questions related to sustainability, energy, natural resources (especially water, hydrocarbons, and renewables), policy analysis, economic-energy-environmental modelling, and scenario analysis, with publications in leading journals such as Energy Economics, Resources Policy, Environmental Science & Policy, and Economic Modelling. She has extensive professional experience with multi-sectoral networks across the knowledge triangle. She leads GY-Energy, a young researchers and youth initiative on energy awareness and participation. She is a member of STEM Women Global and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Curriculum Vitae