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Thessaloniki InternationalSymposium in World Affairs

Ο κόσμος το 2021

The world in 2021

Προκλήσεις μιας αβέβαιης εποχής

Challenges in an Age of Uncertainty

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Το Διεθνές Συμπόσιο Θεσσαλονίκης ξεκίνησε το 2012 στο πλαίσιο των εορτασμών για την εκατονταετηρίδα από την απελευθέρωση της πόλης και έχει καταστεί μια σημαντική διεθνής συνάντηση κύρους, με μεγάλη απήχηση ιδιαίτερα στο φοιτητικό κοινό της πόλης. Το Συμπόσιο αποτελεί μια πλατφόρμα διαλόγου για τις κρίσιμες παγκόσμιες εξελίξεις και προκλήσεις της εποχής μας. Η φετινή διοργάνωση έχει θέμα Ο κόσμος το 2021: «Προκλήσεις μιας αβέβαιης εποχής» και θα εξετάσει τη θέση της χώρας στο σύνθετο και ευμετάβλητο διεθνές πολιτικό και οικονομικό περιβάλλον.

The Thessaloniki International Symposium in Word Affairs was inaugurated in 2012, on the occasion of the festivities commemorating Thessaloniki’s centennial since its liberation. The Symposium aims to provide a platform for dialogue on the critical challenges of today’s world. This year’s topic is The world in 2021: “Challenges in an Age of Uncertainty”. The Symposium will examine Greece’s position in a complex and volatile international political and economic environment.

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Πρόγραμμα 2020

1Η πανδημία του Covid-19 και τι σημαίνει για τον κόσμο;

Δευτέρα 30 Νοεμβρίου 2020 | 20:30-21:45

Καλυψώ ΝικολαΐδηΚαθηγήτρια Διεθνών Σχέσεων & Διευθύντρια του Center for International Studies, University of Oxford;

Stephen M. WaltRobert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Παγκόσμια ύφεση και Ελληνική Οικονομία

Δευτέρα 07 Δεκεμβρίου 2020 | 20:30-21:45

Νίκος ΒέτταςΚαθηγητής Οικονομικών στο Οικονομικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Γενικός Διευθυντής του ΙΟΒΕ;

Daniel Gros Διευθυντής του Centre for European Policy Studies, Βρυξέλλες.

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3Τουρκία: Προς τα πού πάει;

Δευτέρα 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2020 | 20:30-21:45

David L. Phillips Διευθυντής του Peacebuilding and Rights Program, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University;

Soli ÖzelΚαθηγητής Διεθνών Σχέσεων στο Kadir Has University της Κωνσταντινούπολης και αρθρογράφος στην ημερήσια εφημερίδα Habertürk.

Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη και η 4η Βιομηχανική Επανάσταση

Δευτέρα 21 Δεκεμβρίου 2020 | 20:30-21:45

Μιχάλης Μπλέτσας Διευθυντής Πληροφορικής, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab;

Κωνσταντίνος Δασκαλάκης Καθηγητής στο Τμήμα Ηλ. Μηχανικών και Επιστήμης Υπολογιστών του ΜΙΤ και ερευνητής στο MIT Institute for Foundations of Data Science.

Συντονιστής: Δημήτρης Καιρίδης

Εξαιτίας του COVID19, το φετινό Συμπόσιο θα διεξαχθεί διαδικτυακά και μπορείτε να παρακολουθήσετε τις θεματικές συζητήσεις στους παρακάτω συνδέσμους. *η γλώσσα εργασίας είναι τα αγγλικά, ενώ θα υπάρχει δυνατότητα επιλογής για ταυτόχρονη μετάφραση στα ελληνικά

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Agenda 2020

1The Covid-19 pandemic and what it means for the world?

Monday 30 November 2020 | 20:30-21:45

Kalypso NicolaïdisProfessor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies, University of Oxford;

Stephen M. WaltRobert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Global Recession and the Greek Economy

Monday 07 December 2020 | 20:30-21:45

Nikolaos VettasProfessor of Economics at Athens University of Economics and Business & General Director, IOBE;

Daniel Gros Director, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels.

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3Turkey: Where is it heading?

Monday 14 December 2020 | 20:30-21:45

David L. Phillips Director, Peacebuilding and Rights Program, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University;

Soli ÖzelProfessor of International Relations at Kadir Has University and columnist at Habertürk daily newspaper, Turkey.

AI and the 4th Industrial Revolution

Monday 21 December 2020 | 20:30-21:45

Michail BletsasDirector of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab;

Constantinos DaskalakisProfessor at MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and an investigator in the MIT Institute for Foundations of Data Science.

Moderator: Dimitris Kairidis

Due to the COVID19 pandemic, this year’s Symposium will take place online, and webinars’ live streaming will be available on the following links. *The working language of the Symposium is English, but a simultaneous translation in Greek will be available.

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Dimitris Kairidis is a Member of Parliament (ND, Athens North) and a Professor of International Politics at Panteion University of Athens. He has been the founding Director of the Navarino Network in Thessaloniki. He has taught in many universities in Greece and abroad. He has published extensively on international politics including books on nationalism and ethnic conflict, US foreign policy and Greek-Turkish relations.

Biographies in order of appearance:

Konstantinos Zervas graduated from the Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki and the Department of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He did a postgraduate study as a scholar at Brown University in the USA. In 2013 he was appointed Vice-Mayor of Quality of Life, Chairman of the Economic Committee of the Municipality of Thessaloniki and permanent deputy of the Mayor of Thessaloniki. In 2013 he was elected member of the Central Representation of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the Regional Department of

Central Macedonia. In the 2015 parliamentary elections, he was a candidate on the ballot paper of the First Republic of Thessaloniki in New Democracy. In June 2019 he was elected as the 61st Mayor of Thessaloniki.

Henri Bohnet is the Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in Greece and Cyprus. He joined this German political foundation in 2005, first implementing projects in the Russian Federation and then heading the KAS offices in Skopje and Belgrade, before working in the Berlin Headquarters and leading its Domestic Programs Division. He has additional work experience in the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, as well as in the Peacekeeping Department of the United Nations Headquarters.

Stavros Andreadis holds a degree in civil engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Berlin University. He is a Chairman of the SANI/IKOS Group of companies and President of the Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece. In 2013 Ernst and Young elected him as the Greek pioneer entrepreneur of the year. Since 2019 Mr. Andreadis has also been chairing the Governance Council of the Theophano Foundation (www.theophano.eu).

Kalypso Nicolaïdis is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a governing body fellow at St Antony’s College at the European Studies Centre. She teaches the theories and practice of international relations, European integration, international political economy, negotiation and game theory, and research methods. Previously Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, she has worked with numerous EU institutions, including as a member of the European Council’s reflection group on the future of Europe chaired by Felipe González

(2008–10). She is currently chair of the Oxford Working Group on Brexit as well as the Global PeaceTech programme. Full bio can be found here: https://kalypsonicolaidis.com/bio/

Stephen M. Walt is Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy, co- editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005. He received the International Studies Association’s Distinguished Senior Scholar award in 2014. His writings include The Origins of Alliances (1987), Revolution and War (1996), Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (co-authored with

John J. Mearsheimer, 2007). His latest book is The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy (2018). Full bio can be found here: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/stephen-walt

Nikos Vettas is the General Director of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research IOBE since 2013; also a Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, since 2003, where he has served as the Chairman of the Economics Department and a member of the University Council. He has 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, a Research Fellow at CEPR and a member of the Executive

Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics. Has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and of the Journal of Industrial Economics and a member of the Hellenic Competition Authority and of the Economic Advisory Group in Competition Policy of the EC. He is a co-organizer of the annual Conference for Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics and a co-editor of Beyond Austerity: Reforming the Greek Economy, MIT Press, 2017. Full bio can be found here: http://www.aueb.gr/users/vettas/

Daniel Gros is a Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). He joined CEPS in 1986 and has been the Director of CEPS from 2000 to 2020. Prior to joining CEPS, Daniel worked at the IMF and at the European Commission as economic adviser to the Delors Committee that developed the plans for the euro. Over the last decades, he has been a member of high-level advisory bodies to the French and Belgian governments and has provided advice to numerous central banks and governments, including Greece, the UK, and the US, at the highest political level.

Full bio can be found here: https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-staff/daniel-gros/

Soli Özel is a professor at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and a columnist at Habertürk daily newspaper. Previously, he was a Tom and Andi Bernstein Fellow at the Schell Center, Yale Law School, he guest lectured at Georgetown University, Harvard University, Tufts University and other American universities. He has also taught at UC Santa Cruz, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), University of Washington, Hebrew University and held fellowships at Oxford University, the EU Institute of Strategic Studies, and was a Fisher Family Fellow of the “Future of Diplomacy Program” at the Belfer

Center of Harvard Kennedy School. Full bio can be found here: https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/soli-oezel

David L. Phillips is the Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He has worked as a senior adviser to the United Nations Secretariat and as a foreign affairs expert and senior adviser to the U.S. Department of State. He has held positions as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle East Studies, executive director of Columbia University’s International Conflict Resolution Program, director of the Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building at the American University and as a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.

Full bio can be found here: http://www.humanrightscolumbia.org/about/staff

Constantinos Daskalakis is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT. He holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC-Berkeley. He works on Computation Theory and its interface with Game Theory, Economics, Probability Theory, Machine Learning and Statistics. He has resolved long-standing open problems about the computational complexity of the Nash equilibrium, the mathematical structure

and computational complexity of multi-item auctions, and the behavior of machine-learning methods. He has obtained computationally and statistically efficient methods for statistical hypothesis testing and learning in high-dimensional settings, as well as results characterizing the structure and concentration properties of high-dimensional distributions. Full bio can be found here: http://people.csail.mit.edu/costis/academic.html

Michail Bletsas is a Research Scientist and the Director of Computing at MIT’s Media Lab where he has been working since 1996. He was a member of the core technical and design team for the “One Laptop Per Child” initiative which created OLPC’s pioneering, award-winning “XO” laptop. His current research interests include network security, wireless networks, automating fake news detection and building efficient high performance machine learning computing infrastructures. Over the years, he has advised governments around technology policy issues and provided expert

opinion in technical matters to top-level officials. He has cofounded two companies, has been a director and consulted for many others in a variety of capacities. He has implemented broadband access networks using cutting-edge technologies including one of the earliest ADSL testbeds and various wireless technologies.

The Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece is a non-profit organization, founded in 1995 by a group of Thessaloniki based entrepreneurs, aiming to intervene and contribute to the cultural policies of Northern Greece. Since 1995, the Society has launched numerous research projects, academic conferences, cultural events, educational programs and has published significant academic works. The Society aims to highlight the cultural and historical entity of Thessaloniki and the city’s entrepreneurship, as well as to contribute to Thessaloniki’s culture and urban environment.

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) is a German political foundation. With its programs and projects, it actively contributes to international cooperation and dialogue. With one hundred offices abroad and projects in over 120 countries, it makes a unique contribution to the promotion of democracy, the rule of law and the social market economy. In mid-May 2012, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung re-opened an office in Athens, Greece. The main goal of KAS Greece is the promotion of political and social dialogue between Greece and Germany as well as other EU partners.

The Navarino Network (NN) was established in October 2009 and is supported by the Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece. The NN is an independent, scientific, non-profit initiative that aims at promoting innovation and extroversion in the public life of Thessaloniki and the wider region. The NN organizes numerous events, conferences, the annual Olympia Summer Academy and the annual Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs, conducts research and is involved in international partnerships and publications. For more information please visit www.navarinonetwork.org.

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The American College of Thessaloniki (ACT) is the post-secondary division of Anatolia College, an institution with a long and prestigious history that dates back to 1886. ACT is a non-profit educational institution and is accredited by NEASC, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges through its Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. NEASC is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and by the Commission on Higher Education Accreditation. ACT also holds EU program validation and has been granted a license by the Greek government to operate as a private post-secondary educational institution (KEME).

Afixis is a non-profit educational organization founded in Thessaloniki in 2012. Its goal is to reform education, while our philosophy boils down to the thought that education should cover the specific needs of pupils and students and provide them with the means to cultivate their talents and inclinations. At the same time, however, it should entertain and stimulate their interest, eliminating the coercive nature of the existing education system. To this end, we provide an integrated educational experience that promotes lifelong personal cultivation through interactive activities, search and spiritual development for young people. To date, the organization offers to pupils and students four complete educational programs, the Μodel Hellenic Parliament, an interactive simulation of the parliament, the “Protagoras”, Moot Court program, the World Academic Venture (WAVE), a multidisciplinary conference where students present their academic work and Afixis Hackathon, which is a programming competition that brings together young people with Investment funds.

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