| THE GREEK ECONOMY: STATE REFORM—THE CORNERSTONE FOR INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT |
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The American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce has successfully organized the 23rd annual conference “The Greek Economy: State Reform—The Cornerstone for Investment and Development”, on December 3 & 4, 2012 at the Athenaeum InterContinental Hotel.
CONFERENCE SPEECHES/PRESENTATIONS DAY ONE | DECEMBER 3, 2012 Yanos Gramatidis, President, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Evangelos Venizelos, President, PASOK Party Daniel Bennett Smith, US Ambassador to Greece Christos Staikouras, Alternate Minister of Finance MAJOR STATE REFORMS AS A PREREQUISITE FOR ATTRACTING INVESTMENTS AND PROMOTING DEVELOPMENT IN GREECE Public Administration & E-Governance Antonis Manitakis, Minister of Administrative Reform & E-Governance Jenny Bloomfield, Ambassador of Australia to Greece Dionisis Kolokotsas, Policy Manager Greece, Google Emmanouel Raptopoulos, President & CEO, SAP Hellas Moderator: Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, Senior Policy Advisor Transparency – Corruption – Tax Evasion George Mavraganis, Deputy Minister of Finance Leandros Rakintzis, General Inspector for Public Administration, Honorary Judge of Supreme Court George Sourlas, Secretary General, Ministry of Justice Costas Bakouris, Chairman, International Transparency Greece Nikos Peppas, Country Manager Greece & Cyprus, SAS Institute THE GREEK DEBT AND GREECE’S EFFORT TO OVERCOME THE ECONOMIC CRISIS Joly Dixon, Special Advisor, E.C-Task Force for Greece Gabriele Giudice, Head of Unit “Greece”, E.C. (ECFIN) Uwe Bott, President, Cross-Border Finance Inc., USA DAY TWO | DECEMBER 4, 2012 Alexis Tsipras, Leader of the Opposition & President of SYRIZA THE GREEK ECONOMY & THE ROLE OF BANKING SECTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREECE Paul Mylonas, General Manager of Strategy and International Operations, National Bank of Greece Michael Fazio, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey, USA Theodore Krintas, Managing Director, Attica Wealth Management Michael Massourakis, Manager, Economic Research Division, Alpha Bank Moderator: Yannis Perlepes, General Manager, Naftemporiki MAJOR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTING IN GREECE Socrates Lazaridis, Chairman, Athens Exchange Stephanos Issaias, CEO, Invest in Greece John Papadopoulos, Managing Director, Attica Ventures Antonios Achilleoudis, Group Managing Director, Axia Ventures Group Panos Xenokostas, President & CEO, ONEX Moderator: Yannis Papadopoulos, News Director, Real FM ENERGY & MINING IN GREECE: POTENTIALS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Stavros Kalafatis, Alternate Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Ioannis Maniatis, Member of Parliament, f. Deputy Minister of Environment, PASOK George Stassis, Managing Director, Enel Green Power Hellas George Peristeris, CEO, GEK TERNA Mathios Rigas, Chairman & CEO, Energean Oil & Gas George Markopoulos, General Manager, Thracean Gold Mining Moderator: Christos Folias, President, Arabian-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, f. Minister of Development EDUCATIONAL MODELS AS PILLARS FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT – CONNECTING EDUCATION WITH BUSINESS ΕΝVIRONMENT Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, Minister of Education & Religion, Culture and Sports Anna Diamantopoulou, former Minister of Education Dr. Michael Woolf, Deputy President, CAPA International Education, USA Panagiotis Vlachos, Acting President, Anatolia College Stergios Logothetidis, Professor, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Vassilios Makios, General Director, Corallia Clusters Initiative Moderator: Emmanuel Kondylis, Professor of Business and Leadership, University of Piraeus THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN GREECE Olga Kefalogianni, Minister of Tourism Peter Herdrich, CEO, Archaeological Institute of America, USA Robert Apfel, President, Bondholder Communication Group, USA Tim Ananiadis, General Manager & Managing Director, Hotel Grande Bretagne Andreas Stylianopoulos, President & CEO, Navigator Ltd. & Member of the Board, SETE Nikos Remantas, Administrator, Club Hotel Casino Loutraki Moderator: Symeon Tsomokos, President, Greek-Serbian Business Council KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE Introduction: Yanos Gramatidis, President, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Keynote Address: Antonis Samaras, Prime Minister of Greece • Sponsors
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