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.