Greece’s economic and digital transformation: in conversation with Kyriakos Pierrakakis

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  Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

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  Well, a warm welcome to everybody.

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  Thank you for joining us in this LSE event,

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  organized by the Hellenic Observatory, the Center for Research on Contemporary Gris and Cyprus,

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  in collaboration with the Hellenic Bankers Association in the UK,

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  to which we are very, very thankful for this opportunity to collaborate.

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  Again, my name is Vasilis Monastriiotis.

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  I'm the director of the Hellenic Observatory here at the London School of Economics.

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  And it is an immense pleasure I have to say an honour to be in a position to welcome the Finance Minister of Greece,

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  Mr Kiriakos Pirakakis, for this event.

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  I am quite sure Mr Pirakakis doesn't need a lot of introduction.

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  Everybody in Greece knows him,

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  but I think internationally also he has quite a reputation and a following for the successes he has done in his tenure as Minister for Digital Governance,

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  also in the Ministry of Education and the significant reforms that took place there and now as Minister of Finance in Greece.

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  He is known as a reformer, a person, a politician,

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  a policymaker who creates change and makes things work to the best.

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  So we're very, very proud and happy to have him here,

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  to have a conversation with him about a number of issues,

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  the achievements of Greece, what remains to be done,

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