Economic Forum in Athens: Is Greece about to exit the crisis?
The Economic Forum
discussed on 7th of October, 2014, the following theme:
The Rejuvenation of the Greek Economy: The Path to Growth - Programme
CO-ORGANIZER: The Hellenic Alumni Association of the London School of Economics and Political Science
WITH THE SUPPORT OF: University of Bath and Centre for International Business and Management
Conference Program
12:30 Arrival of Delegates-Registration
13:15 Introductory Remarks by Dr. Vassilis G. Apostolopoulos President of the Hellenic Entrepreneurs Association (EENE)
13:30 Opening Address by Evangelise Venizelos, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
13:50 Keynote Address Gikas Hardouvelis, Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minister of Administrative Reform and E-Governance of the Hellenic Republic (cancelled)
Yannis Maniatis, Minister of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change of the Hellenic Republic
Prof. George Stathakis, Member of the Parliament, SYRIZA Party, Professor of Political Economy,
University of Crete
Prof. Christos Pitelis, Director of Centre for International Business and Management, University of
Bath; and University of Athens
Michael Massourakis, Chief Economist, Alpha Bank
Vassilis Antoniades, Partner & Managing Director, the Boston Consulting Group, Athens
Chair: Stamatis Zacharos, Managing Editor, Capital.gr/”Kefalaio” Newspaper
16:15 Coffee Break
16:45 Keynote Address Alexis Tsipras, Leader of the Opposition, President of SYRIZA
17:15 Keynote Address Panagiotis Michalos, Secretary General for International Economic Relations, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic (cancelled)
17:30 Obstacles and incentives for Entrepreneurship: The case of taxation policy and Bureaucracy Red Tape
Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Chairman, S&B Industrial Minerals
Nikos Karavitis, Professor of Public Finance, Panteion University, Athens
Marios Kyriacou, Senior Partner, KPMG Greece, Athens
Chair: Stamatis Zacharos, Managing Editor, Capital.gr/”Kefalaio” Newspaper
18:15 Banking Sector Rejuvenation and Credit Expansion Influence of the ECB central monetary policies
Anastasios Anastassatos, General Secretary, Ministry of Finance of the Hellenic Republic
Kerasina Raftopoulou, Former Head of Enterprises Division in Agricultural Bank, Member of the
Secretariat of the Economic Policy Department of SYRIZA and Head of Finance sector.
Chair: Stamatis Zacharos, Managing Editor, Capital.gr/”Kefalaio” Newspaper
19:00 Adjourn – Cocktails
Post.script: Reflections of the Economic Forum
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