International economic conference in Athens on economic crisis

The conference is jointly organized by the Center of Planning of Economic Research (CPER) and the Multinational Finance Society.

The aim of the conference is to conduct an open debate between politicians, academics, researchers, doctoral candidates and professionals from several international organizations on current economic issues and empirical findings which relate to the recent Eurozone crisis.

Keynote speakers include Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis and Bank of Greece Governor, Yannis Stournaras.

During the conference, there will be roundtable debate titled: "Crisis in the Eurozone: The case of Cyprus and Greece."

The invitation to the conference will be sent to 9,000 university professors from around the world.

The debate will include the following speakers:
-Dimitris Vayanos, Professor of Finance and Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality at the London School of Economics
-Notis Mitarakis, Deputy Development and Competitiveness Minister
-Philippos Sachinidis, member of Parliament (and lawmaker with PASOK).
-Georgios Stathakis, member of Parliament (lawmaker with PASOK) and professor of Political Economy
-Christos Staikouras, Deputy Finance Minister
-Christis Hassapis, president of the Board of Directors in the Bank of Cyprus and deputy professor in the University of Cyprus