Dr. Konstantinos Pappas Google Scholar Associate Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute
and Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University

Dr. Pappas has a 28-year career in program/project management, monitoring and evaluation, policy development, and research including senior roles in the European Commission, Directorates General for Environment and for Health, where he was, among other tasks, responsible for projects that address rural transformation, circular economy, renewables, food safety, and more, integrating environmental and resource considerations into sustainable development frameworks. Project outcomes have been implemented in most of Europe and in Turkey, Jordan and Morocco. Since 2018 he has overseen major projects and initiatives at the Texas A&M Energy Institute, emphasizing stakeholder engagement in areas like Carbon Capture, Renewable Technologies, and more.  Pappas’ research interests include the societal aspects of energy transition, rural transformation, and migration flows with particular focus on rural migration, migration patterns, global environmental change, European Union migration policies and political institutions, migration and international development and sustainability, , and impact on water, energy, and food security, especially in the South Mediterranean region. Since 2022, he is a Member of the Regional Science and Technology Advisory Group of the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction Office for the Americas and Caribbean, participating in the consultation of the Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework and the study of the impact of social, economic, and political underlying conditions and vulnerabilities on the energy-food-migration nexus under growing hazards in the Northern Triangle  Trained as an Agricultural Engineer, he holds a Graduate Certificate in International Public and NGO Management from Cornell University (2021), a Ph.D. in Migration Economics from the University of Patras, Greece (2015),an MSc in Agricultural Economics (1993) and a BSc. (1992) in Agricultural Engineering. from the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.

Recent/Ongoing Research
Pappas, K., Daher, B., Hamie, C.S., Roth, J., Barjaktarevic, M. (2022). National and International Funding for Financing Sustainable Development Goal 6: Case of Jordan. In: Leal Filho, W., Abubakar, I.R., da Silva, I., Pretorius, R., Tarabieh, K. (eds) SDGs in Africa and the Middle East Region . Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91260-4_53-1

Pappas K., Hamie C.S., Daher B. (2021) Water, Energy, Food Resource Challenges in Migration: Role of Informal Institutions. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A.M., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Özuyar P.G., Wall T. (eds) Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71066-2_79-1

Daher B, Pappas K, Lavell A (UNDRR, 2023) White Paper A Systems Approach for Disaster Risk Reduction: Exploring the Nexus of Energy, Food, and Human Mobility in the Northern Countries of Central America. Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

Daher B, Hamie S, Pappas K and Roth J (2022) Examining Lebanon’s Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 6:748343. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.748343

Daher, B.; Hamie, S.; Pappas, K.; Nahidul Karim, M.; Thomas, T. Toward Resilient Water-Energy-Food Systems under Shocks: Understanding the Impact of Migration, Pandemics, and Natural Disasters. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9402. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169402