Sergio Castellari is senior scientist at CMCC, responsible for the Unit "Institutional Relations and Adaptation Policies". He has been working as climate science and policy expert for the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea; he participated as Italian Delegate to IPCC, UNFCCC, UNCCD, GEO and UNEP Sessions; as Italian expert at the EU Science Expert Group of the EU WPIEI-CC of EU Council. He has been co-chair of Contact Groups at UNFCCC-SBSTA sessions. From 2006 he is the IPCC National Focal Point for Italy. He is an Italian Representative in the Joint Programming Initiative Connecting Climate Change Knowledge for Europe. From 2011 he is the Coordinator and Project Manager of the European Topic Centre on Climate Change impacts, vulnerability and Adaptation of European Environment Agency.
His main interests are focused on climate-change policy with particular emphasis on science and adaptation