All Entries in the "Day by day with the Fellowship IN ATHENS" Category
Meeting the Leaders of the New Greece
The Athens Fellows sit down with an impressive array of articulate, dynamic leaders who are taking this country to the next level. | Athens Fellows with Secretary General GIORGOS ANASTOPOULOS
Looking at Modern Greece from every angle
From ship-owners to newspaper editors, and think-tank professors to business leaders, Athens Fellows go right to the top to see where today’s Greece is headed | Athens Fellows with ship-owner NIKOS TSAKOS
The Marvels of Ancient and Modern Greece
The Athens Fellows delve into the many wonders of Greece, ancient and modern | Athens Fellows under Syntagma Square with the builder of the new Athens Metro: CEO & engineer LEONIDAS KIKIRAS
With Leonidas Kikiras at the Athens Metro
Standing in front of a 20-foot tall glass wall revealing the multiple layers of Athenian history uncovered by the Metro project’s excavations — a wall stretching the entire length of the Syntagma Square station — Mr. Kikiras explained how teams of archaeologists worked ahead of, then alongside of, engineers for a total of six years…
The Antikythera Mechanism at the National Museum of Archeology
Looking at what is now considered the world’s first mechanical computer — and considered by at least one expert as being “more valuable than the Mona Lisa” — one is flooded with dozens of intriguing questions: Who made it?… Who owned it?… What if it had not been lost? What kind of world would we be living in today?…
With George Papaconstantinou at PASOK party headquarters
Young, handsome and articulate, Mr. Papaconstantinou has been compared to “Sam Seaborn” — the White House Communications Director as played by Rob Lowe on the American television show West Wing…
At the New Acropolis Museum
Words simply cannot do justice to the experience of walking down from the familiar ruins of the Acropolis, and into the museum which so perfectly displays the great treasures and fragments that once graced the hill just outside the new museum’s windows…
At the Acropolis
Where else in the world can you be surrounded by ancient landmarks like the Odeon, the Areopagus the Agora, and the Pnyx — the birthplace of democracy — and still be awestruck when you walk through the gates of the Acropolis and see the Parthenon?…
With Christos Gortsos at the Hellenic Bank Association
A university professor in his other life, the young and congenial Secretary General rolled up his sleeves to give the Fellows an incisive introduction to the workings of the European banking system, and how the Eurozone works…
With Yanos Gramatidis at the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
The Athens Fellows took advantage of Mr. Gramatidis’ expert insight into the business environment in Greece, and let loose a barrage of questions on everything from business and high-tech trends in Greece, and Greece’s progress on adopting alternative energy sources, battling corruption, and tackling the “brain drain”…
With Giorgos Anastasopoulos at the Ministry of Development
Once they were seated in the fifth floor conference room of the Ministry, Secretary General Anastasopoulos arrived with a presentation in hand, and proceeded to greet with Fellows with an urgent question: “Why aren’t you guys at the beach?”…
With Sofia Daskalaki-Mytilineou at City Hall
What is it like to run the largest city in the country, which is simultaneously a world capital, a major center for tourism, the leading center for business and finance in the region — and a city whose 6,000 years of history make it one of the great centers of western civilization?…
With Nikos Konstandaros at “Kathimerini” newspaper
A Master Class with the Managing Editor of Greece’s standard-setting newspaper, an interview by one of the paper’s correspondents — and a surprise visit from the paper’s publisher, the paradoxically publicity-shy Greek tycoon, Aristides Alafouzos…
With Spiros Capralos at the Athens Stock Exchange
Once inside the gleaming high-tech headquarters of the Athens Stock Exchange, the Fellows were ushered upstairs to the Exchange’s boardroom and an informal lunch with the Exchange’s affable CEO, Spiros Capralos…
With Dimitri Tzianninis at the Ministry of Finance
Don’t get to meet for an hour and a half with the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors? Well, the Athens Fellows did today…
With Dimitrios Katsoudas at the Foreign Ministry
Another visit by the Athens Fellows to the Foreign Ministry, and a rare chance to sit down with Greece’s point man in Europe for a Master Class on the European Union as a “web of relations”…
Dinner looking up at the Acropolis
What could be better for a group of Greeks than sharing a lovely dinner (and great conversation) while sitting together under the stars — with the breath-taking sight of the Parthenon gracing the Acropolis just across the way, and the moon gently rising above it all?…
