Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 2:00 p.m.
Delivered (virtual)
Thank you, Vassilis, and thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to join the launch of this Embassy-supported project. And I really want to congratulate you and all of your colleagues at SciFi for organizing this program, keeping it on track through the pandemic and then moving it from real life to the virtual platform and all your work jointly with our partners at Demokritos here in Athens, and at FORTH in Heraklion, both of which I’ve visited.
I also want to say a huge thanks to the team from SRI, Roland and Lucien for getting up really early and for being part of this exercise over the next few days. I want to share with you also, I’ve had multiple conversations with Greece’s fantastic Minister of Digital Governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, who I know at the very top of his travel list has a trip out to the Bay Area and Stanford, so we will continue to be focused on building these academic and also policy an
Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
As Delivered (virtual)
Kalispera, good afternoon everybody. Let me start by thanking the Council on Competitiveness and the Athens School of Medicine for inviting me this afternoon to participate and to talk about how clinical trials can help to grow the Greek economy and build closer relations between our research and business communities.
I especially want to thank my friend Simos, who has done so much to build trade and economic ties between Greece and the United States during my time here, and especially the collaboration we had which was so fantastically successful around the 2018 Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF).
Friday, February 26, 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Delivered (virtual)
Thank you, Artemis, and καλησπέρα everybody. Good evening. Let me say what a huge pleasure it is for me to be part of the opening of this event, and I want to give a special shoutout and thank you to Artemis and the whole team at Fulbright for organizing this discussion in a way that puts a really positive spotlight on Black History Month.
I had the opportunity yesterday to participate in two events that reminded me how important this is. One was a terrific panel discussion led by Minister of Education Kerameus and the team at IIE in New York. I know that Professor Rapatzikou was on that Zoom discussion as well. But it was a fantastically impressive conversation about all of the partnerships that have emerged over the past year or so between Greek institutions and counterpart institutions in the United States, and Professor Wright, I don’t know what at this point Emory does with Greece, but I’m not