George Papandreou (Guest speaker)

George Papandreou served as Greece's Prime Minister on the outbreak of the Greek financial crisis, managing to avoid his country’s bankruptcy, whilst applying a series of structural reforms for modernizing his country. In 2010 he was awarded Germany’s Quadriga Award in the category “Power of Veracity”, for his achievements related to government Transparency. For his efforts to reform Greece he was named one of the Foreign Policy magazine’s TOP 100 Global Thinkers in 2010. Currently he is the President of the Socialist International. He is also the co-chair of the Democratic Alignment, a coalition of the center left parties in Greece, composed by the Panhellenic Socialist Movement PASOK), the Democratic Left (DIMAR) and the Movement of Democratic Socialists.