Elena Panaritis Social Entrepreneur,Economist,Policy Innovator speaks at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Bologna

April 25, 2013 - PRLog -- Elena Panaritis  
Social Entrepreneur, Economist, Policy Innovator

Elena Panaritis opens discussion on "Coping with the Crisis" at SAIS Johns Hopkins University on April 26 2013 at 17.30pm (GMT + 2:00) Bologna Italy.

Institutional economist and founder of Thought for Action (T4A), Elena Panaritis will speak tomorrow Friday, April 26 at 5:30 p.m. at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), to open the discussion on "Coping with the crisis' during an annually held, international academic meeting this weekend (April 26-28) in Bologna, Italy.

Elena will be addressing policy problems identified in the global economy and will be offering specialised observations on the effects brought about by the structural and institutional crisis in Greece. At the same time, she will be focusing on how and why specific policies have failed to manage this crisis in Greece, but also in Europe. She opposes the polarising division between Europe’s North and South as it forms according to her a “simplistic approach that continues to exacerbate the problem of the euro”.

Of particular interest during the above weekend summit in Bologna is the meeting of three country perspectives (Greece, Iceland and Germany), who from different standpoints are at the forefront of the crisis facing the eurozone and the EU.

At the panel alongside Elena will also participate:
-Thora Arnórsdóttir : Senior Editor at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (and Former Presidential Candidate)

-Arntraud Hartmann : Adjunct Professor of the German International Development

About Elena Panaritis
Elena Panaritis is an institutional economist, social entrepreneur, and policy innovator. Until recently ago she served as a special advisor to the Greek Prime Minister and as a Member of Parliament of Greece. In more than a decade as an economist at the World Bank, Elena spearheaded several institutional/structural reforms including property rights reform in Peru that received International Best Practice and Innovation awards (10Million benefited while the return was over 150 multiple). Elena’s reform methods have revolutionized and forever changed the way people and policymakers think about them; and specifically about property rights’ reforms. As an institutional economist she pioneered social entrepreneurship, she is renowned for her success in transforming informal markets (by changing property rights) into vibrant, growing formal economic and social entities. Her book Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust (Palgrave Macmillan) recounts her experience and expands on her methodology- “Reality Check Analysis”, which is considered one of the best practical applications of institutional economics to property rights issues. Robert Litan, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute and Vice President for Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Entrepreneurship calls her work “a real contribution.”

She is the founder of Panel Group (http://www.panelgroup.com/), a triple-bottom-line business that focuses in distressed cities and markets with high level of informality, transforming the wealth base of poor property holders, to proud middle class owners. Panel Group also provides counsel to governments and private sector on how to apply structural reforms and changes to transform illiquid assets (property) and turn markets more efficient and productive. She has also founded Thought for Action (http://thought4action.org/), an educational foundation to create awareness about transforming informality and countries under solvency crisis like Greece. Elena Panaritis has taught economic development, housing finance and property markets reform courses at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, INSEAD, and the Johns Hopkins University- School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She blogs at:www.prosperityunbound.com/blog

Key articles

Huffington post:  
“Cyprus bailout: A Really Bad Deal” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-panaritis/cyprus-euro...)
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-panaritis/cyprus-euro-bailout_b_2897177.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications)
March 17, 2013          

‘Why Europe Is Failing to Prevent the Spread of the Euro Crisis’ (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-panaritis/european-debt-crisis_b_1959016.html)
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-panaritis/european-debt-crisis_b_1959016.html)
October 11, 2012  

‘Greece Is at the Crossroads With the IMF in Tow (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-panaritis/greece-debt-imf-eurozone_b_2166739.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications)’
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-panaritis/greece-debt-imf-eurozone_b_2166739.html)
November 20, 2012  

The Guardian:
‘Promote Greek Entrepreneurship to Turn this Crisis into an Opportunity’ (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/22/greek-entrepreneurship-crisis)
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/22/greek-entrepreneurship-crisis)
February 22, 2012          

The Globalist: ‘The Historical Roots of Greece's Debt Crisis’ (http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=9131)
(http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=9131)
May 13, 2011