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ONE CRISIS, TWO CRISES, MULTIPLE CRISES

07-08 October 2016

Kiani Beach Resort Chania, Crete, Greece

GREEK PUBLIC POLICY FORUM 5TH

ANNUAL CHANIA 2016

5th Annual Chania Forum 2016 GREEK PUBLIC POLICY FORUM

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Programme

The 5th Annual GPPF Chania Forum organised by the Greek Public Policy Forum will take place on

October 07 and 08 at the Kiani Beach Resort in Chania, Greece.

This year’s Chania Forum aims at continuing the discussion we started five years ago on how Europe

and its Member States are changing because of the crisis, the impact the crisis has on our societies and institutions, and the policy ideas that can contribute to the aims of more prosperity, more

democracy and more union. During our 1st Annual Chania Forum in 2012, we tried to examine these questions from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the comparative dimensions of the crisis

and primarily the division between ‘North’ and ‘South’, the ‘core’ and the ‘periphery’. During the 2nd

Annual Chania Forum in 2013, we focused on the supranational level and examined how, despite the rise of euroscepticism, extremism and populism, this crisis may be a catalyst for deeper political and

economic integration. Our 3rd meeting analysed and projected the impact of European Parliament elections on the integration process and assessed the overall level of ideological polarisation both

across national parties and regions with secessionist tendencies (e.g., Scotland). We further delved

into the political economy and legal issues pertaining to the design of fiscal and banking union. During the 4th Annual Chania Forum in 2015, we attempted to take stock with the cumulative effects of the

European debt crisis at the level of ideas, institutions, and actors with a focus on the economic rationale and political limits of austerity, as well as issues such as financial and political contagion in

the context of the European debt crisis.

The aim of this year’s 5th Annual Chania Forum will be to apprehend the ‘perfect storm’ of crises

sapping the very foundations of the European project, viz. the refugee crisis, the debt crisis, and the threat of disintegration, inter alia because of Brexit and Grexit. We are interested in discussing the

economic, political, and human rights dimensions of the refugee crisis, in assessing the long-term implications of the upcoming British referendum result, and in gauging the challenges of debt,

economic stagnation, and deflation for the banking sector –especially in Greece. As always our

intention is to trigger a multidisciplinary interaction, focusing on the comparative dimensions of our chosen themes of discussion, while bearing in mind the persisting challenges in the intergovernmental

relations between ‘North’ and ‘South’, ‘Core’ and ‘Periphery’.

The Greek Public Policy Forum is an initiative led by Greek scholars from European Universities. Our

aim is to establish a tribune for dialogue on public policy issues affecting Greece and Europe. Until now, we have organised a number of fora at the University of Oxford, the University of Nottingham, in

Chania, as well as at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, tackling questions surrounding the crisis and its impact on Europe and its democratic foundations. In the past we ran a research project on

Greek constitutional reform in the aftermath of the crisis.

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Friday, October 07

Welcoming Remarks A Brief Presentation of the Greek Public Policy Forum

09:00 – 10:00

Session I The Refugee Crisis as a Gordian Knot? The View from the Ground

10.00 – 11:30

Chair:

Theodora Papadimitriou, Advisor on Social Issues to the Mayor of Athens

Speakers: Kalliopi Stefanaki, Protection Officer, UNHCR Greece (The Office of the United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees) Zahra Hrifa, The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe)

Lydia Bolani, Senior Investigator, Human Rights Unit, Office of the Greek Ombudsman

Discussion

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Coffee Break

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Session II

Refugees, Economic Migrants, and Human Rights:

The Legal and Policy Dimensions of the Refugee Crisis 12:00 – 13:30

Chair:

Vassilis P. Tzevelekos, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool

Speakers:

Eiko R. Thielemann, Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy, Department of Government and European Institute, LSE; Director, LSE Migration Studies Unit

Samantha Velluti, Reader in Law, University of Sussex Christos Rozakis, Professor (Emeritus) of International Law, University of Athens; Former Vice-

President of the European Court of Human Rights

Discussion

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Lunch Break ___________________________________________________


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Session III

Brexit and the UK: Regained Sovereignty or Impending Meltdown? 14:30 – 16:00

Chair:

Aris Georgopoulos, Assistant Professor in European and Public Law, University of Nottingham

School of Law

Speakers: Christopher Hill, Professor (Emeritus), Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS),

University of Cambridge Vicky Pryce, Economist and CEBR Board Member

Julie Smith (Baroness Smith of Newnham), Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International

Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge; Life Peer (Liberal Democrats), UK House of Lords

Discussion ___________________________________________________

Coffee Break

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Session IV

The Challenges to European Integration: A New Beginning or the Beginning of the End? 16:30 – 18:00

Chair:

Elias Dinas, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, Oxford University

Speakers:

Pietro De Matteis, President and Co-founder, European Federalist Party George Pagoulatos, Professor of European Politics and Economy, Athens University of Economics

and Business; Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges; Senior Fellow, ELIAMEP Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, Judge, European Court of Human Rights

Eleni Varvitsioti, European Correspondent, SKAI TV / Kathimerini (daily)

Discussion

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Reception and Dinner ___________________________________________________


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Saturday, October 08

Session V Macro Perspectives on Public Debt in Greece

09:00 – 10:00

Chair:

Chris Uregian, Economic Analyst, DG ECFIN, European Commission

Speakers: Marianthi Anastasatou, Economist, Council of Economic Advisors, Greek Ministry of Finance;

Research Associate, ELIAMEP Crisis Observatory

Wes McGrew, Deputy Division Chief, Strategy, Policy and Review Department, IMF; Former IMF Resident Representative in Greece

Discussion

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Coffee Break

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Session VI

Debunking Myths and Misconceptions about Foreign Direct Investment,

Economic Reforms, and the Greek Crisis 10:30 – 12:30

Chair:

Nikitas Konstantinidis, Assistant Professor, School of International Relations, IE University

Speakers:

Yannick Radi, Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law and Criminology, University of Louvain Antonis G. Karampatzos, Associate Professor of Civil Law, University of Athens, Law School

Platon Tinios, Assistant Professor at the University of Piraeus; Research Associate, ELIAMEP Nikos Vettas, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics

and Business; Director General, Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE)

Discussion

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Lunch Break

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Roundtable Discussion Is There an End to the Tunnel?

The Prospects of the Greek Economy in the Context of the Greek Crisis Saga

13:30 – 15:00

Moderator: Michael Mitsos, Foreign Affairs Editor, TA NEA

Speakers:

Tassos Anastasatos, Deputy Chief Economist, Eurobank; Research Associate, University of Piraeus;

Former Secretary General, Greek Ministry of Finance, and Chairman of SOE (EWG Member for Greece) Aristos Doxiadis, Economist and General Partner, Openfund

Sotiris Georganas, Reader in Behavioural Economics, City University London Antigone Lyberaki, Professor of Economics, Panteion University (Athens), Former Member of the

Greek Parliament (To Potami)

Closing Remarks 15:00 – 16:00

Stavros Theodorakis, Leader, To Potami (Greek parliamentary party)


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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Marianthi Anastasatou is an economist working in the Unit of Economic Research Analysis of the Council of Economic Advisors of the Greek Ministry of Finance and Research Associate of the ELIAMEP

Crisis Observatory. She studied International and European Economics at the Economic University of Finance and Economics and Finance (M.Sc.) at the University of York. She obtained her Ph.D. in

Growth Economics at the University of Bristol. She is experienced in the analysis of the

macroeconomic environment and the Economic Adjustment Programme of Greece. She is the Greek delegate at the Output Gap Working Group and the Lisbon Methodology Working Group of the

European Union and the Working Party 1 on Macroeconomic and Structural Policy Analysis of the OECD. Her research interests include economic growth, competition and the interlinkages with trade

openness and financial development, and inequality. [[email protected]]

Tassos Anastasatos is Deputy Chief Economist and Assistant General Manager at Eurobank, and Research Associate at the University of Piraeus. He has also served as Secretary General of the

Ministry of Finance and Chairman of SOE (EWG Member for Greece). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in Financial and International Monetary Economics, an M.Sc. (Warwick) in

Economics and Finance, and a B.Sc. from the Athens University of Economics and Business in

International and European Economic Studies. He has also served as an Economist at the Bank of Greece, Lecturer at Loughborough University (UK), Visiting Lecturer at the Athens University of

Economics & Business (AUEB), and Teaching Fellow at Warwick University. He has published in various areas of international monetary economics, the Greek economy, and Southeastern European

economies and financial systems. He is involved in most of Eurobank’s current research activities.

[[email protected]]

Lydia-Maria Bolani is Senior Investigator at the Human Rights Department of the Office of the

Greek Ombudsman. She studied law at the University of Athens (LL.B., 2002; LL.M. in

International Studies, 2004) and the University of Oxford as Academy of Athens Scholar focusing on Public International Law (Magister Juris, 2005; M.Phil. in Law, 2007). She has worked for the Greek

National Commission for Human Rights and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Greece. [[email protected]]

Pietro De Matteis is Co-founder and Current President of the European Federalist Party. Under this

capacity, he stood as MEP candidate in Belgium with the list “Stand Up for the United States of Europe” at the latest European Elections. As a convinced federalist he first joined the European

movements (e.g., JEF, GFE) after his Erasmus year at University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in 2003, when I got engaged in the campaign for the ratification of the ‘European Constitution’. It is

back then that he first considered developing a pan-European federalist party. An economist by

training, he graduated from the University of Milan-Bicocca (summa cum laude) and obtained a Masters-level degree from the European College of Parma. He also received a Ph.D. in international

studies form the University of Cambridge and has conducted research in the USA (Columbia University) and China (Renmin University). He currently works for the European Commission, where

he manages cooperation programmes with third countries. In the past, he has worked for the


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Chamber of Commerce of Milan, a multinational company in Shanghai, the European Central Bank,

and the EU Institute for Security Studies. [[email protected]]

Aristos Doxiadis is an economist and General Partner at Openfund. He has been a pioneer of the private equity industry in Greece. In his 17 years as a private equity executive he has effected

expansion capital investments, buy-outs, and exits, formed new businesses and start-ups, orchestrated operations, raised and also structured funds. He has participated in the boards of about

fifteen companies and taken an active executive role in some of those. He has extensive experience in

management consulting and providing public policy advice. He has also been an advisor to the first Openfund since 2009. In 2012, he joined the Openfund management company as a Partner. He holds

a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University and an M.Sc. in Economics from Birkbeck College London. Finally, he blogs extensively at aristosd.wordpress.com. [[email protected]]

Sotiris Georganas is Reader (Associate Professor) in Behavioural Economics at the Department of

Economics, City University London. His primary area of research up to now has been in auction experiments, models of bounded rationality, and applied game theory. His previous job was as Senior

Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London. From 2007 until 2009, he worked at the Ohio State University as a post-doctoral researcher with John Kagel. His

doctoral research was done at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics, under Professor Reinhard

Selten. While in graduate school, he spent his second year (2004-2005) visiting the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (as part of the European Doctoral Programme) and working with Rosemarie Nagel. His

undergraduate studies were also in Economics at the University of Bonn from 1999 to 2003. He spent his last year visiting the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His Diplomarbeit (similar to a master's thesis),

done under Benny Moldovanu, was an experimental study about auctions with resale.

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Christopher Hill is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and

International Studies (POLIS) of the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. Before retirement he held first the Montague Burton chair at the LSE and then the Sir

Patrick Sheehy chair at Cambridge. He has published widely in the areas of foreign policy analysis,

European foreign policy, and general international relations, with a particular focus on the interplay between domestic society and foreign policy. His most recent publications are: Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), (with Sarah Beadle) The Art of Attraction: Soft Power and the UK’s Role in the World (British Academy, 2014), and The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies (OUP, 2013). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in

2007 and received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Peloponnese in 2015. [[email protected]]

Zahra Hrifa read Law in France and completed a Masters in Public International Law and International Organisations at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I, France). She also completed

the Diploma of École des Hautes Études Internationales at the Pantheon-Assas University (Paris II,

France). After having completed her Masters, Zahra worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (The Hague, The Netherlands). Zahra is currently based where she completed

her Graduate Diploma in Law, working in the Human Rights field as a legal caseworker at the AIRE Centre under the supervision of Mrs. Nuala Mole. Zahra has a strong interest in human rights and

more particularly in crimes against humanity and genocide. She published an article last year,


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titled In Memoriam of Srebrenica. She is also currently strongly involved in legal aspects of the

refugee crisis (on the French front) with barristers based in London. [[email protected]]

Antonis G. Karampatzos was born in Athens in 1977. He is Associate Professor of Private Law at the Law School of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. Between 2000-2004 he obtained his

LL.M. and Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen Law School (Germany). After his stay in Germany, he

carried out post-doctoral research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of University College London. He has written six books and published a plethora of scientific papers in Greek, German, and

English. His most recent book in Greek is on a behavioural economic analysis of law and consumer protection (Private Autonomy and Consumer Protection – A Contribution to Behavioural Economic Analysis of Law, 2016). He has also organized and participated in numerous international legal conferences. He is a member of the Athens Bar Association and his professional interests are mainly

focused on international arbitration as well as on drafting legal opinions on private law issues.

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Antigone Lyberaki is Professor of Economics at Panteion University in Athens. During the academic

year 2015/6 she was Visiting Professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics.

She served as MP for the Greek parliamentary party ‘To Potami’ between January and September 2015. A graduate of Athens University, she holds a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.Phil. in Development

Studies from Sussex University. She has also taught at the University of Crete, the City University of New York (Queen’s College), and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her

current research interests are in small and medium-sized firms, migration, ageing societies, and

gender / feminist economics, where she has published extensively. She is the author of numerous books and articles. [[email protected]]

Wes McGrew was the IMF Resident Representative in Greece from September 2013 to September 2016 and will take up a new assignment in the IMF Strategy, Policy, and Review Department (SPR) in

October. His previous assignments at the IMF include mission chief for Cyprus and the Former

Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and several years in SPR. Before joining the IMF in 2004, he worked at the U.S. Treasury Department, where his final position was head of the office of Latin America and

the Caribbean. Mr. McGrew also served as a senior vice president at the NASDAQ stock market for two years after leaving the U.S. Treasury and before joining the Fund. He completed his doctorate in 1988

at the University of Chicago. [[email protected]]

Michael Mitsos is a foreign news analyst at the Athens News Agency and a foreign affairs editor at the Greek newspaper TA NEA. He has studied Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic School of

Athens (1981) and has a Master in Biochemical Engineering from the University of Wales. [[email protected]]

George Pagoulatos is Professor of European Politics and Economy at the Athens University of

Economics & Business (AUEB), and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. He was Senior Advisor and Director of Strategy at the PM Office under prime ministers Lucas Papademos and

P. Pikrammenos (2011-12). He is a member of the Board of Directors of Athens-based ELIAMEP and

the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels, and serves in the advisory board of several


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institutions. He was High Council member of the European University Institute (2010-13) and

president of ECSA-Greece (2013-14). He has been writing a regular column in the Sunday edition of

Greece’s main centrist daily Kathimerini since 2007. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. His publications focus on EMU and the EU, the political

economy of Greece and Southern Europe, economic governance, and the political economy of reform. [[email protected]]

Theodora Papadimitriou holds an M.A. in Human Rights Law from the University Paris X Nanterre

and a Ph.D. in Public Law from the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She has taught in various French Universities and has participated in research programs in the fields of European, Constitutional,

and Administrative Law. Since 2014, she works as an Advisor for the Municipality of Athens focusing on social care projects and providing management, coordination, and legal support services.

[[email protected]]

Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque is a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights. His nine-year term of office began on February 5, 2011. A distinguished jurist and legal academic, Judge de Albuquerque

is an Ordinary Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lisbon. He has served as

judge in various civil and criminal courts in Lisbon, an expert with the Council of Europe’s GRECO (Group of States against Corruption), an advisor to the Portuguese Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a

Member of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice Taskforce for Penal Reform. [paulo.pintode [email protected]]

Vicky Pryce is a leading economist working on UK, Eurozone, and global issues. She is currently on

the board of the Centre for Economics and Business Research. She was previously Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Director General for Economics at the Department for Business Innovation

Skills, and Joint Head of the UK’s Government Economic Service. Before that, she was partner at London Economics and KPMG and held senior economist positions in oil and banking. Her numerous

publications include: “Greekonomics – The Euro Crisis and Why Politicians Don’t Get it” (Biteback,

2013) and “It’s the Economy, Stupid” with Ross and Urwin (Biteback, 2015). [[email protected]]

Yannick Radi is Professor of Public International Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Louvain.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the Brill Research Perspectives in International Legal Theory and Practice. He is a member of the Committee of the International Law Association on the Rule of Law and

International Investment Law. He holds a Ph.D. and an LL.M. from the European University Institute and an LL.M. from the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas. His areas of expertise include general

international law, international dispute settlement, global economic governance, and international investment law. He is the author of several publications in these fields, notably a forthcoming

textbook on international investment law and arbitration to be published by Cambridge University

Press. [[email protected]]

Christos Rozakis is Professor (Emeritus) of International Law at the University of Athens. He was

formerly the President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe and the first Vice-

President of the European Court of Human Rights. In 1996, he also served as a Deputy Foreign


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Minister of Greece. He studied Law at the University of Athens and continued his studies at University

College London (LL.M., 1970), the University of Illinois (LL.M., 1971; J.S.D., 1973), and the Graduate

Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He has also been a member of the European Commission of Human Rights since 1987 and the ECHR since 1998. [[email protected]]

Julie Smith (Baroness Smith of Newnham) is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and

International Relations, University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Robinson College, where she is a

Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies. An expert in European politics, Julie was Head of the European Programme at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) from 1999 until

2003. She read PPE at Brasenose College, Oxford, and took both her M.Phil. and D.Phil. in Politics at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. She was a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and has taught in the

International Relations and European Studies Department of the Central European University in Budapest. Julie’s research focuses primarily on the history and politics of European integration. Her

current research focuses on the role of parliaments in the EU and on budgets and parliaments. She is

the Principal Investigator for the ESRC-funded Cambridge component of the OPAL project on the roles of national parliaments in Europe post-Lisbon, organised within the Open Research Area, and runs the

Cambridge team of INCOOP, a Marie-Curie Initial Training Network. In addition to her work on the EU, she has written on various aspects of Liberalism, including the history of the Liberal International.

Finally, since September 2014, she has been a life peer and a member of the UK House of Lords.

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Kalliopi Stefanaki is working with UNHCR in Greece as a Protection Officer. She studied Law in the

Kapodistrian University of Athens and completed her postgraduate studies (DEA) in Public

International Law at the University Paris II Sorbonne. She also served in the Human Rights Department of the Greek Ombudsman's Office for eight years. She has participated as a speaker in a

number of conferences related to the above mentioned fields and published articles on the same topics. She has also worked with the European Commission and the Office of the European Parliament

in Paris. She is a lawyer, member of the Athens Bar Association, working in the field of human rights and refugee rights since 1998. Moreover, she is a member of the Hellenic League for Human Rights,

an NGO active in the human rights field in Greece and a member of the International Federation of

Human Rights. Finally, he is married with two children. [[email protected]]

Stavros Theodorakis is a journalist and Leader of the Greek parliamentary party ‘To Potami’. In the

January 2015 election he won a seat in the Hellenic parliament and his party won 17 out of a total of

300 seats. His career as a journalist started in 1984 at the radio stations 902 FM and Skai 100.3, as well as the newspaper Eleftherotypia. In 2000, he started a show titled “Protagonists” at the former

public TV channel NET, and in 2006 took it to the private network Mega TV. He also had a weekly column at the newspaper TA NEA. On 26 February 2014, he announced his decision to quit both his

show at Mega TV and his column at TA NEA in order to launch a new party. He also decided to take a back seat in the running of the website Protagon.gr, which he had launched. Finally, he has written

three books. [[email protected]]

Eiko R. Thielemann is Associate Professor in European Politics and Policy at the London School of Economics, where he is also the director of the LSE Migration Studies Unit (MSU). He is a Global

Associate Professor at New York University (NYU) and a board member of the Journal of Refugee

Studies. He is a founding director of IMPALA, the International Migration Policy And Law Analysis


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Database. After studying economics at the University of Heidelberg and international relations at LSE,

he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and became a faculty member at the LSE in

2000. Since then, he has also held research and teaching positions at several other institutions including the University of Cambridge, the Australian National University (ANU), the University of

California San Diego (UCSD), and the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He has also worked as an advisor for both the European Commission and the European Parliament. His research focuses on

EU and comparative policy-making, in particular on asylum and immigration issues. He has been a

guest-editor at the Journal of Common Market Studies and the Journal of Refugee Studies. He has published widely on asylum and immigration in Europe, refugee burden-sharing, and the role of the

EU in migration management. Finally, he is the lead-author of a recent report for the European Parliament titled “What System of Burden-Sharing for the Reception of Asylum-Seekers?”

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Platon Tinios is an economist and Assistant Professor at the University of Piraeus. During the academic year 2015/6 he was Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of

Economics. He studied at the Universities of Cambridge (M.A., Ph.D.) and Oxford (M.Phil.). He served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004, specializing in pensions and the

economic analysis of social policy. He was a member of the EU Social Protection Committee from 2000

to 2004. He has been involved in the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) since 2004. His research interests include pensions, ageing populations, social policy, labour

economics, and public finance. He has taken a special interest in the gender aspects of ageing, leading to a 2013 EU report on the gender gap in pensions and a book published in the US.

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Eleni Varvitsioti is the European Correspondent for the Greek daily Kathimerini and the network SKAI TV. She is also a regular contributor to major international publications such as the New York

Times. She has delivered daily news-breaking reports on Greece’s negotiations with its Eurozone partners and an unparalleled number of exclusives, often picked up by international media. During her

tenure in Brussels, Eleni also provided in-depth coverage of the immigration crisis, the Russia –

Ukraine war, and Brexit. Before arriving in Brussels, she covered two US presidential elections (2008, 2012), the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, but also the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, where

she was reporting for weeks from Tahrir Square in Cairo. One of her most noteworthy reports though was in Argentina, interviewing the Finance Minister at the time, Hernan Lorenzino, who was unable to

answer her questions regarding inflation in Argentina. The interview got major media attention and

led to his resignation. Her work covering the Greek crisis was recognized by the Botsis Foundation, which gave her an award of excellence in 2016. She has spoken about the Greek crisis on CNN’s

Amanpour program, SKY News, and BBC radio. [[email protected]]

Samantha Velluti joined Sussex Law School in September 2016 as Reader in Law. Previously she

was Reader in EU Law, Deputy Director of Research, Postgraduate Research Programme Leader, and

Co-Chair of the Law in a Global Context Research Group at Lincoln Law School (UK). She has also held posts as Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in EU law at the University of Manchester and Liverpool (UK).

Her main area of research is EU law and policy. She has researched and written extensively on the relationship between law, constitutionalism, and experimental forms of governance, particularly in the

fields of employment, gender equality, and immigration. More recently, she has been carrying out

research in the field of EU asylum law and policy examining legislative developments and the judicial


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activism of the European Courts with a focus on fundamental human rights. Another area of her

research looks at the EU's approach to human rights conditionality in its external trade relations with

third countries further to the changes introduced by the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon. She is currently writing a monograph titled The Role of the EU in the Promotion of Human Rights and International Labour Standards in its External Trade Relations (Heidelberg: Springer). [[email protected]]

Nikos Vettas is General Director of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE)

since 2013. He is also Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) since 2003, where he has served as Chairman of the Economics Department and a member of

the University Council. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has been an Associate Professor at Duke University and a Visiting Professor at INSEAD. He serves as Associate

Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization and the Journal of Industrial Economics and as Research Fellow at CEPR. He has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and has been a member of the Hellenic Competition Commission and the

Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy at the European Commission. His interests are primarily in the areas of microeconomics, industrial organization, and competition and regulation

policy. He is a co-organizer of the annual Conference for Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics (C.R.E.T.E.) and a co-founder of www.greekeconmistsforreform.com. His work has been

published in academic journals such as the International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies. [[email protected]]


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Event Organisers:

The Greek Public Policy Forum team, [email protected] - Elias Dinas (University of Oxford), [email protected]

- Aris Georgopoulos (University of Nottingham), [email protected]

- Nikitas Konstantinidis (IE University), [email protected]

- Kiriakos Papadakis (Decidendi Consultants), [email protected]

- Vassilis P. Tzevelekos (University of Liverpool), [email protected]

- Chris Uregian (European Commission), [email protected]

Event Sponsors:

Decidendi Consultants

Europe Direct Region of Crete (Europe Direct Περιφέρειας Κρήτης) CALPAK S.A.

Special Acknowledgements:

We would like to express our gratitude to the team of the Kiani Beach Resort for their logistical

support and warm hospitality. We are particularly thankful to Ms. Peli Kalamiotaki, Front Office Manager at the Kiani Beach Resort, for providing invaluable clerical support for the workshop. We also

wish to thank Mr. Barry Colfer for his contribution to the event’s communication and outreach activities. Last but not least, we would like to thank Ms. Odin Linardatou for her invaluable

contribution to the conference interviews and videos.

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