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Monica Gambino is an economist with extensive experience in the analysis of socio-economic aspects of Mediterranean and European fisheries.

Since 1999 she has been involved in several international and EU-funded projects concerning collection and analysis of socio-economic data on the Italian fishing fleet in the EU data collection framework of fishery data. Since 2021 she is vice-president of the European Association of Fisheries Economists (EAFE) and in 2020 and 2021 she was the co-chair of the Regional Coordination Group for Economics Issues (RCG ECON), under Regulation (EU) 2017/1004 on the establishment of a Union framework for the collection management and use of data in fisheries sector and support for scientific advice regarding the Common Fisheries Policy. In recent years, her research activities has focused on the socio-economic impact assessment, development of bio-economic model, statistical methods of validating and verifying data, sustainable fisheries value chains, impact analysis of funds supporting marine activities.