Short bio:

Gemma Andreone is Research Associate of International Law with the Institute of International Legal Studies of the Italian National Research Council (ISGI-CNR). She is the Editor in Chief of the Maritime Safety and Security Law Journal, the first peer-reviewed and open access journal in the field of the International Law of the Sea. Currently, she is Visiting Scholar at the Law Department of the University of Turin and consultant for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and for the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. She is coordinator of the Italian mirror platform Policy in the EU CSA BLUEMED. She is member of the Scientific Council of INDEMER since February 2015. She has been coordinating the COST ACTION IS 1105 “MARSAFENET” - NETwork of experts on the legal aspects of MARitime SAFEty and security (www.marsafenet.org) - funded by the EU from March 2012 to March 2016. She is legal adviser and solicitor at the Bar of Rome and member of several scientific projects. She is author of books, papers, and articles on many international law issues, and especially on the law of the sea, fisheries and Mediterranean sea governance. She has been acting as Treasurer and member of the Scientific Council of the International Association of the Law of the Sea from 2009 to 2016. She has been teaching International Law as adjunct Professor of at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” from 2001 to 2013 and she obtained the National Scientific Qualification to Associate Professor of International law and European Law in Italian Universities in 2014. She obtained a PHD in Public and European Law at the Faculty of Law of Seconda Università of Naples in 2001 and obtained a LLM in European Law and Economics at the University of Naples Federico II in 1998.