2010

During the 13th Annual Symi Symposium on Poros in 2010, Kemal Dervis, Vice President of Brookings Institution, explains how lessons learned from Turkey's financial crisis in 2001 can be applied to Greece. James Galbraith, from the LBJ School of Public Policy of the University of Texas, speaks about the Symi Symposium experience. Mary Kaldor, Director of the LSE Centre for the Study of Global Governance, explains why the Symi Symposium has been a ‘voyage of discovery’.

(Left to right) Joseph Stiglitz, Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Nobel Prize Winner for Economics in 2001; Mary Kaldor, Director and Professor at the LSE Centre for the Study of Global Governance; George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece and President of Socialist International; Misha Glenny, Writer and Broadcaster; and Cem Ozdemir, Chairman of the Green Party in Germany, at the closing ceremony of the 13th annual Symi Symposium which took place in the Greek island of Poros in July 12-15, 2010.

George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece and President of Socialist International, speaks at the closing ceremony of the 13th annual Symi Symposium which took place in the Greek island of Poros in July 12-15, 2010.

The irony of a socialist dismantling the state is not lost on Papandreou, particularly when it was set up by his own father. 

By Helena Smith

July 16, 2010

When George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, swims, he cuts through the water with agility and speed.

Gerd Leipold, former International Executive Director of Greenpeace International, at a workshop of the 13th annual Symi Symposium which took place in the Greek island of Poros in July 12-15, 2010.

Gerd Leipold, former International Executive Director of Greenpeace International, and Tina Birbili, Greek Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change, at a workshop of the 13th annual Symi Symposium which took place in the Greek island of Poros in July 12-15, 2010.

(Left to right) George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece and President of Socialist International; Dimitri Zenghelis, Senior Economist at the Grantham Research Institute, LSE; Gerd Leipold, former International Executive Director of Greenpeace International; and Tina Birbili, Greek Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change, at a workshop of the 13th annual Symi Symposium which took place in the Greek island of Poros in July 12-15, 2010.

Kemal Dervis, Vice President of the Brookings Institution; speaks at a workshop of the 13th annual Symi Symposium which took place in the Greek island of Poros in July 12-15, 2010.

George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece and President of Socialist International, and George Papaconstantinou, Greek Minister of Finance, at a workshop of the 13th annual Symi Symposium which took place in the Greek island of Poros in July 12-15, 2010.

(Left to right) George Papaconstantinou, Greek Minister of Finance; Kemal Dervis, Vice President of the Brookings Institution; and Joseph Stiglitz, Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Nobel Prize Winner for Economics in 2001, on the sidelines of the 13th annual Symi Symposium which took place in the Greek island of Poros in July 12-15, 2010.