Keynote Policy Symposium

Prospects and Challenges for Administrative Reform in Greece

                    

event details

Date	Friday, 11 April 2014
Time	13:30 - 19:15
Venue	The Box,  Tower 3, LSE
Chairs	Professor Kevin Featherstone Director, Hellenic Observatory; Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies & Professor of European Politics, LSE Professor Martin Lodge Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Director, Centre For Analysis Risk & Regulation -CARR, LSE Professor Ed Page Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy, LSE Professor Dimitris Papadimitriou,  Professor of Politics, Manchester University; Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE)

The sovereign debt crisis and two successive ‘bail-outs’ for Greece have focussed international attention on the ability of governments in Athens to ‘deliver’ structural reform.  As the key agency for delivery, the performance of the state administration has been the subject of close scrutiny. This Symposium was a timely opportunity to assess the current situation and the prospects for making the administration more ‘fit for purpose’.  The Symposium was a private meeting and followed the Chatham House rule of no comments being attributed to any participant.

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A group photo of the Keynote Policy Symposium participants

Professor Kevin Featherstone welcomes the audience 

Dr Georgios Evangelopoulos, National Bank of Greece Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Professor Calliope Spanou,  The Greek Ombudsman; Professor of Administrative Sciences, University of Athens

 Professor Brigid Laffan, Director, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University

Professor Bo Rothstein delivering the keynote address titled 'The Costs of Low Quality Governance' 

Theodore Tsekos,  Assistant Professor of Public Administration, The Peloponnese Higher Institute for Technological Education

Christos J. Paraskevopoulos, Associate Professor of European Public Policy at the University of Macedonia, Greece and Research Associate of the Hellenic Observatory discusses research 

Last remarks regarding the welcoming session 

Questions from the audience 

 Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of International Public Services Management, Northumbria University; Visiting Professor, Bocconi University; President, European Group for Public Administration delivering the first paper in Session 1, titled 'Learning from the experience of administrative reforms in Italy? A review of certain substantive and methodological issues'

 Brigid Laffan, Director, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute speaks on the topic of 'Debt Bailouts and Domestic Administrative Reform'

 Georgette Lalis, Head of the Task Force for Greece, European Commission discusses the presentations in Session 1

After a quick break, Professor Kevin Featherstone kick-starts Session 2, entitled 'State Administration in Greece:  Recent Reform Efforts'
  

Professor Kevin Featherstone Director at the Hellenic Observatory; Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies & Professor of European Politics, LSE presents on 'The The Conditionality Effect: the Troika and the Taskforce in Greece'

Theodore Tsekos,  Assistant Professor of Public Administration, The Peloponnese Higher Institute for Technological Education delivers a talk on 'Current Administrative Reforms in the light of the MoU'

George Alogoskoufis, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics &  Business; Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics starts the panel discussion in Session 3  - 'The Practioner Experience; Lessons from the Inside' 

 The three panel discussants (left to right): Professor Achilleas Mitsos, Professor George Alogoskoufis and Evy Christofilopoulou, Deputy Minister for Administrative Reform and e-Governance, Greece
 

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minister for Administrative Reform and e-Governance, Greece delivers the keynote, entitled 'Administrative Reform in Greece: Challenges and Opportunities'

 The audience at The Box

More discussions over a glass of wine

Georgette Lalis, Head of the Task Force for Greece, European Commission 

Professor Calliope Spanou and Professor Edoardo Ongaro exchanging greetings with Professor Martin Lodge

Professor Kevin Featherstone and Evy Christofilopoulou, Deputy Minister for Administrative Reform and e-Governance, Greece