Biographical Sketch: Sihem Jebari holds a Ph.D in Water Resources from Lund University (2009). Her original background is Agricultural Engineering. She has been working as a researcher at INRGREF (Tunisian National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry) since 1999. Her research work is focused on semiarid and arid areas. It involves water erosion modeling, human activities & climate change impacts on water availability, agricultural environment degradation, reservoir siltation and transboundary water management. Besides, while participating to international projects Sihem’s research commitment dealt with “Hydropolitics, Security and International Law”, “River Basin Adaptation Plans” and “Participatory approaches”. Currently she is investigating new methodologies and applying relevant techniques in order to enable the drawing of adapted scenarios for better Integrated Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean river basins.