EUSAIR - Final Report

MILENA KRASIĆ, MONTENEGRO
Holds a master’s degree in the field of biodiversity. Her professional career
has been devoted to the field of fisheries, from her bachelor’s degree,
through the Institute of Hydrometeorology of Montenegro, elementary
school where she was a biology teacher, research at the Faculty of Natural
Sciences, working in international consultancy, to the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development, where she met with EUSAIR. Milena still works
for the Ministry as Head of the Fishing Fleet Resources and Management
Department.
Milena has been involved in EUSAIR since its early stage – preparation and
drafting of the Strategy, to which she contributed from the very beginning,
both in the governance of the Blue Growth Pillar and in the governance of
EUSAIR at the national level. During the Montenegrin EUSAIR Presidency,
she was especially active in preparation of the 4 th EUSAIR Forum, where a
high-level panel and a thematic session were devoted to the field of Blue
Growth – Aquaculture. She was the first Pillar 1 Blue Growth Coordinator
from Montenegro, and she still makes an exceptional contribution to the
work of EUSAIR TSG 1.
ROSSELLA RUSCA, ITALY
Holds a master’s degree in architecture from La Sapienza – University of
Rome. As Counsellor in the Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU
from 2014 to 2019, Ms Rusca was responsible for Macro-regional Strategies.
Since 2020, she has been an independent expert, in charge of assisting the
city of Venice for participation in the Horizon Europe Mission “100 Carbon
Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030”.
She made an outstanding contribution from the very beginning of the EU
debate about a Macro-regional approach in regional policy, and throughout
her career as cohesion policy and territorial cooperation expert. In 2014,
during the Italian Presidency of the EU, Ms Rusca chaired the Friends of the
Presidency Group of the Council dedicated to Macro-regional Strategies,
and prepared Council Conclusions on EUSAIR, adopted and endorsed in
2014. She has strongly supported the development of Macro-regional
Strategies at EU and national levels, including their effective governance,
their better embedding in programmes supported by EU Funds, and a wider
and systematic analysis of their added value and results.
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