List of Members
(last updated on 02/02/2021)
The network of FEMISE is composed of 101 members’ institutes representing the EU-Med region and it includes: 48 Members from the Mediterranean Partners countries and Turkey and 54 Members from the European Union Countries and the United Kingdom.
These members share similar objectives of FEMISE and work on conducting research on economic, social and political economy issues.
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There are three types of memberships:
1. Founding members: Institutes that have participated in the creation of the association in 2005 and their names appear in its charter. The Economic Research Forum and the Institut de la Méditerranée are considered Founding members by right. There are 52 founding members in the association.
2. Active member: Institutes that joined and are joining the network after its establishment and whose activities and areas of interest are related to those of FEMISE. The network is open for new members. Acceptance of new members is the decision of the Steering Committee. Active Members are committed to the advancement of FEMISE objectives and shall be entitled to full participation in Forum activities.
3. Observers: Institutes that joined and are joining the network after its establishment and whose activities and areas of interest are related to those of FEMISE, but that do not have membership rights, including voting rights. Acceptance of new observers is the decision of the Steering Committee.
Network members are entitled to participate in the activities of the network and are committed to the development and progressing of its objectives.
Mediterranean Partners Countries
Country | Member Institutes | Status | Contact Name |
| Algeria | CREAD | Founding Member | Moundir Lassassi |
| Faculte des Sciences Economiques et des Sciences de Gestion, Universite Badji-Mokhtar, Annaba | Active Member | Nadji Khaoua | |
| Faculté des sciences économiques, des sciences de Gestion et des sciences commerciales, Université d’Oran, Oran* | Active Member | Najat Zatla | |
| Egypt | Economic Research Forum*** | Founding Member | Ibrahim Elbadawi |
| MSA University – Le Caire | Founding Member | Doaa Salman | |
| Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences of Cairo University | Active Member | Heba Nassar | |
| Economic Department of the American University, Cairo, Egypt* | Active Member | Mona Said | |
| Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) | Active Member | Abla Abdel-Latif | |
| Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS) | Active Member | Wahid Abd El Magead | |
| Israel | Interdisciplinary Center for Technological Analysis and Forecasting | Founding Member | Tal Soffer |
| Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations, The Hebrew University* | Founding Member | Alfred Tovias | |
| Tel-Hai Academic College | Founding Member | Tamar Arieli | |
| The Macro Center for Political Economics (former IIESR) | Founding Member | Roby Nathanson | |
| Jordan | Royal Scientific Society* | Founding Member | Abeer Arafat |
| Jordan Center for Social Research | Active Member | Musa Shteiwi | |
| Center for Strategic Studies (CSS), University of Jordan | Active Member | Zaid Eyadat | |
| Lebanon | Institute of Financial Economics, AUB* | Founding Member | Samir Makdisi |
| Univ. St Joseph, Liban | Founding Member | Chochig Kasparian | |
| Morocco | Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane | Founding Member | Ahmed Baijou |
| IMRI | Founding Member | Jawad Kerdoudi | |
| Faculté des sciences juridiques, économiques et Sociales, Université Mohamed V* | Founding Member | Lahcen Oulhaj | |
| INSEA | Founding Member | Ahmed Skalli | |
| Faculté de droit et d’économie Cadi Ayyad | Active Member | Kchirid El Mustapha | |
| Lasaare | Active Member | Fouzi Mourji | |
| Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah (USMBA) de Fes | Active Member | Abdelhamid EL BOUHADI | |
| Institut Supérieur de Commerce et d’Administration des Enterprise (ISCAE), Morocco | Membre Actif | Tarik El Malki | |
| Palestinian Authority | Al Quds University of Jerusalem* | Founding Member | Mahmoud Eljafari |
| Birzeit University | Founding Member | Nidal Sabri | |
| Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) | Active Member | Nabeel Kassis / Haneen Masri | |
| Syria | Academic Unit for Scientific Research (AUSR) | Pending (founding Member) | – – |
| International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) | Pending (Active Member) | – – | |
| Tunisia | Institut Arabe des Chefs d’entreprises | Founding Member | Majdi Hassen |
| Ecole Supérieure de Commerce De Sfax | Founding Member | Karim Chaabouni | |
| Université de Tunis El Manar* | Active Member | Mongi Boughzala | |
| Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Economiques et Politique de Sousse | Active Member | Lassaad Lakhal | |
| Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Nabeul, Université de Carthage (FSEGN) | Active Member | Rached Bouaziz | |
| Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales de Tunis, Universite de Tunis (ESSECT) | Active Member | Sofiane Ghali | |
| Institut de la Mediterranee of Tunis | Active Member | Sami Mouley | |
| Institut Tunisien de la Compétitivité et des Etudes Quantitatives (ITCEQ) | Membre Actif | Zouhair El Kadhi | |
| Turkey | Bilkent University, Center for International Economics* | Founding Member | Subidey Togan |
| Center for Mediterranean Studies, | Founding Member | Yilmaz Özkan | |
| Département d’économie de l’Université Galatasaray | Active Member | Mustafa Ulus | |
| METU Science and Technology Policies Research Center (TEKPOL) – Middle East Technical University | Active Member | Teoman Pamukçu | |
| Centre for Economic Research on Mediterranean Countries, Economic Department at the Akdeniz University | Active Member | Selim Cagatay | |
| Department of Economics, Mersin University | Active Member | Suleyman Degirmen | |
| Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) | Active Member | Sibel Guven | |
| Economic and Social Research Center, Istanbul Technical University | Active Member | Saime Kayman / oner guncavdi | |
| TOBB Univeristy of Eocnomics and Technology | Active Member | Onur Tas | |
| Faculty of Business Administration, Université Technique de GEBZE | Active Member | Murat Anil Mercan | |
| Yaşar University | Active Member | Durmuş Ozdemir |
European Union Countries and the United Kingdom
Country | Member Institute | Status | Contact Name |
| Belgium | Ecomod Network | Founding Member | Ali Bayar |
| ULB-CEB* | Founding Member | Khalid Sekkat | |
| Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Universite Catholique de Louvain | Active Member | Jean-Francois Maystadt | |
| Croatia | Institute of Economics, Zagreb | Active Member | Dubravka Jurlina Alibegovic |
| Denmark | Roskilde University* | Founding Member | Luca Ghibelli |
| Finland | University of Tampere, TAPRI* | Founding Member | Tuomo Melasuo |
| France | Agropolis – CIHEAM-IAM.M | Founding Member | Fatima elhadad |
| GREQAM) Aix-Marseille University | Founding Member | Marion Dovis | |
| CEPN – CNRS UMR7115, Université de Paris 13 (Université Paris Nord) | Founding Member | Joel Oudinet | |
| CERDI Clermont Ferrand | Founding Member | Patrick Plane | |
| LEAD, Université de Toulon-Var | Active Member | Nicolas Peridy | |
| ERUDITE, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne | Founding Member | Philippe Adair | |
| ADRESSE-Cemafi | Founding Member | Claude Berthomieu | |
| CATT, Université de Pau | Active Member | Jamal Bouoiyour | |
| KEDGE Business School | Active Member | Thomas Lagoarde Segot | |
| Centre de Recherche en Economie et Management, UMR CNRS | Active Member | Claire El Moudden | |
| The Institute of Economic and Social Development Studies (IEDES), University of Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne, | Active Member | Karine Marazyan | |
| ENERGIES 2050 | Active Member | Stephane Pouffary | |
| L’Observatoire des Pratiques des Entrepreneurs et des Entreprises (OPEE) | Active Member | Maarouf Ramadan | |
| DIAL- UMR LEDa – Paris Dauphine, France | Membre Actif | El Mouhoub MOUHOUD | |
| Fondation pour les etudes et recherches sur le développement Internationales (FERDI) | Membre Actif | Emilie FABREGUETTES | |
| Germany | GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies (IMES) (Former Deutsches Orient-Institut) | Founding Member | Thomas Richter |
| DIW Berlin, German Institute for economic research* | Founding Member | Alfred Steinherr | |
| Université de Hambourg – IWK | Founding Member | Bernd Lucke | |
| The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) | Active Member | Markus Loewe | |
| Greece | Inweb-Grece | Founding Member | Jacques Ganoulis |
| Department of Political Science and International Relations (PEDIS) – University of the Peloponnese | Active Member | Nikolaos Tzifakis | |
| Hungary | Institute of World Economics, Hungarian Academy of sciences | Active Member | Tamas Szigetvari |
| Italy | Cespi | Founding Member | Marco Zupi |
| CNR-ISSM | Founding Member | Salvatore Capasso | |
| iMed | Founding Member | Andrea Amato | |
| Université de Modène et Region Emilie | Founding Member | Sergio Alessandrini | |
| CENSIS | Observer | Carla Collicelli | |
| Université de Bologne | Active Member | Alessia Franchini | |
| Centre for Research in Labour Economics and Economic Policy, University of Salerno* | Active Member | Anna Ferragina | |
| Malta | Institute for European Studies, University of Malta | Active Member | Susanna Thede |
| Poland | Department of Economics, Warsaw University* | Founding Member | Jan Michalek |
| CASE-Center for Social & Economic Research | Active Member | Katarzyna Sidło | |
| Romania | Universitatea Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca | Founding Member | Sergiu Miscoiu |
| The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies | Active Member | Cristina Boboc | |
| Spain | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid** | Founding Member | Rafael de Arce |
| IEI, Universidat de Valencia | Founding Member | Inés Cubells | |
| Faculté des Sciences Economiques de Grenade | Active Member | Juliette Milgram Baleix | |
| Institut Universitari d’Estudis Europeus (IUEE) | Active Member | Jordi Bacaria | |
| IEMed, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània | Active Member | Roger Albinyana | |
| The Institute of International Economics (IEI, University of Jaume 1) | Membre Actif | Cristina Aliaga | |
| Sweden | Lund University | Active Member | Ronny Berndtson |
| The Netherlands | Unesco IHE, Institute for Water Education | Founding Member | – – |
| United Kingdom | Sussex University* | Founding Member | Michael Gasiorek |
| University of Southampton, Economic Division of the School of Social Sciences | Active Member | Jacqueline Wahba | |
| European Institute, London School of Economics | Active Member | Vassilis Monastiriotis | |
| London Middle East Institute (LMEI), School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) | Active Member | Massoud Karshenas | |
| Loughborough University | Active Member | Christos Kourtelis | |
*** Founding member by Right and President of FEMISE
** Elected Member of the FEMISE Board of Directors and Elected Treasurer of FEMISE
* Elected Member of the FEMISE Board of Directors