In 10 years, Greece can be the biotech hub of Europe

The presentation of Komvos’ scheduled actions closed with an optimistic message regarding the theme of stractured synergies between research, health, biotechnology and Economy: In 10 years Greece can be the biotech hub of Europe.

Of course, under the condition that Greece must take the risk and support innovative ideas that can come out from startups, healthy small-medium sized companies, universities and researchers. There is room for growth. We just need to invest in the talents that exist in Greece.

Maritina Grelloni, Director, Entrepreneur Experience and Innovation Programs, Endeavor Greece moderated the discussion of the action
moderated by Konstantinos Drosatos, General Secretary of the Board of Komvos and Nikos Kirpidis, Member of the Board of Komvos.

Stamatiki Krita, Business Development Manager, HBio Cluster and Grigoris Roumeliotis Vice President of Global Business Development, Orgenesis Inc. also took part in the discussion.

The event was held thanks to the great sponsordhip of Pireaus Bank, the communication sponsorship of Skai TV, the sponsorship of National Bank and the continuous support of the Ecovis-One tax accounting company.

Global Hellenism constitutes a powerful force for the development of the country

Komvos was created to contribute to the development of the country. It is not another think tank. After all, there are enough and good ones in Greece. Komvos is a think-act, because it undertakes initiatives for the implementation of actions that, taking advantage of the dynamic of Hellenism, will have immediate effect to Greek society, throughout the improvement of the everyday life of Greeks, through the improvement of the economic, cultural, and scientific level.
The Vice-President of Komvos, Professor Michalis Haliassos, also president of the organizational committee of the Conference, is setting the framework of the work context of Komvos’ first work Conference through his introduction. The President of Komvos presented the positions and objectives of the organisation.
Τhe first work conference sets the stage for a series of actions:
The first one is the census of the Greek human potential abroad in order to create a network which can be mobilized to serve the -well meaning- interests of Hellenism globally.
The second one concerns an initiative, which we call “ENNOIA”, and its purpose is to strengthen Greek households in taking their financial decisions.
The third action consists of the exploitation of the perspectives of a synergy between Health-Biotechnology and Economy with the aim of promoting the interaction in these fields.
Haris Antoniou, treasurer of the Board of Directors of Komvos, closed the conference with a brief introduction to the planned actions of Komvos regarding Shipping.
The event was held thanks to the support of Pireaus Bank, as the bank was the Mega Sponsor of the event, Skai TV (communications sponsor) and National Bank (Sponsor).

In the article’s main picture, from left to right:
Michalis Halliasos, Anna Grimani, Haris Antoniou, Angelos Haniotis, Kostas Drosatos
In order to watch the video of the introduction of the first work conference, follow this link here!

P. Tzamourani: The wealth of Greek households and Eurozone

At the event entitled ” Greek households facing modern economic challenges”, which had been organised by professor Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt), dr. Panagiota Tzamourani spoke about the loans and the assets of the greek households in comparison with Eurozone.

The event was org anized by Komvos-Node: Networks of Global Hellenism, sponsored by Accenture Greece.

Panagiota (Teti) Tzamourani is a Principal Economist-Statistician for European Central Park, secondment from the Federal German Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank), where she is an executive of its Research Center since 2013.

She has worked at the Bank of Greece (1997-2013) and at the National Centre for Social Research in London (1999-200). She is a graduate of the Athens University of Economics and holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.d in statistics from the London School of Economics. She has published her work to high prestige national scientific journals in the fields of Economy and Statistic. Her research interests are focused on the economic issues of households, economic inequality as well as in the methodology of sample surveys. Website:

https://www.bundesbank.de/en/panagiota-tzamourani
You can watch her speech from Komvos’ youtube channel:

https://youtu.be/ma76Ww2F5BU

Demetrios Christodoulou

Demetrios Christodoulou has been Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the ETH Zurich 2001-2017, where since 2017 he is Emeritus Professor.

He studied physics at Princeton University, where he received his PhD in 1971. After that he turned to mathematics, becoming Professor of Mathematics, first 1985-1987 at Syracuse University in the State of New York, then
1988-1992 at the Courant Institute of New York University, and in the period 1992-2001 at Princeton University, a position which he held until his move to Zurich.

He has been awarded the MacArthur Fellows Award (1993) for his work in mathematics and physics, the Bocher
Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society (1999), the Shaw Prize (Hong Kong) in Mathematical Science (2011), and the Henri Poincare Prize of the International Association of Mathematical Physics (2021). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Sciences, and the Academia Europaea.

George P Chrousos

George P Chrousos is a pediatrician, endocrinologist, neurobiologist and one of the world’s foremost medical clinical researchers. He is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Endocrinology of the Faculty of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Director of the University Research Institute of Maternal and Child Health & Precision Medicine. He holds the UNESCO Chair in Adolescent Health Care.

He is one of the 250 most highly cited scientists internationally (ISI highly cited), included not only in the list of Clinical Medicine, but also in that of Biology and Biochemistry, and the most highly cited clinical pediatrician or endocrinologist in the world.

He is currently a member of the Supreme Council of the National Authority on Higher Education in Greece.