With participants 980 personalities from all over the world will start tomorrow Wednesday, April 26 at 12:30 his work 8th Delphi Economic Forumentitled ‘Paradigm Shifts’, which will take place in Delphi and run until Saturday, April 29.

The President of the Republic, Mrs. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, under whose auspices the Delphi Forum is being held, will open the Forum’s proceedings with her speech.

The conference will be graced with the presence of the Greek Prime Minister, Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Alexis Tsipras, president of the SYRIZA Progressive Alliance and former prime minister.

There will be more than 980 speakers from 70 countriesincluding the President of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulidis, the Federal Chancellor of Austria Karl Nehammer, the President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev, the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik, the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Montenegro Albin Kurti, the European Commissioner and Vice-President of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, Foreign Ministers of Qatar Soltan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi and Nikos Dendias of Greece, Deputy Foreign Minister of Turkey Mehmet Kemal Bozay.

Some of the top names who have confirmed their presence include Christian Wulff, President of Germany (2010-2012), Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, Luis de Guindos, Vice President of the European Central Bank, Ivailo Izvorski, Chief Economist of the World Bank for Europe and Asia, Viviane Reding, former Vice-President of the European Commission, Catherine Ashton, former High Representative of the EU. for foreign policy matters, General David H. Petraeus, President, KKR Global Institute, Gene Frieda, Executive Vice President & Global Strategist, Pimco, Ian Lesser, Vice President of the German Marshall Fund of the US, o Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jürgen Rigkterink, Zhiqin Shi, Executive Director of China’s flagship Belt & Road initiative, the modern “Silk Road”, Abdulaziz Sager, Chairman of the Gulf Research Center based in Saudi Arabia, Ebtesam Al Ketbi, Chairman of the Emirates Policy Center (EPC ), Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director-General for Energy of the European Commission, Samantha Gross, Director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative of the Brookings Institution, the economist Nouriel Roubini, known for his ominous predictions for the global economy, as well as a number of Foreign Ministers of EU and the Western Balkans and researchers of the largest think tanks worldwide.

The program of the 8th Delphi Economic Forum will be broadcast live in six simultaneous live streams and is structured in five thematic pillars:

– Changing Geopolitical Chessboard
– Climate and environment
– Sustainable Economy & Financing
– Social integration
– Technological progress

The program of the Delphi Economic Forum is formed in collaboration with important think tanks and organizations from Greece and abroad such as Brookings Institution, Rand Corporation, Atlantic Council, Chatham House, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS ), Konrad Adenauer Foundation, European Forum Alpbach, Bled Strategic Forum, GLOBSEC, Institute for National Security Studies, Institute for International Political Studies, The European House – Ambrosetti, New Strategy Center, The Brenthurst Foundation, The Graduate Institute of Geneva, Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies, Warsaw Security Forum, Tony Blair Foundation, LSE London School of Economics- Hellenic Observatory, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Hanna Seidel, MARTINS CENTRE, ONASSIS FOUNDATION DIANEOSIS, DEREE, Superfund National Investment Fund, , ATHENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, COMPETE GREECE, ON ETERON, INSTITUTE GLOBAL, LASKARIDES, SFEE.

On the Forum’s website (www.delphiforum.gr) you can see the sections and all the thematic discussions that will take place at the 4-day April Forum, as well as the more than 980 distinguished personalities – confirmed speakers from Greece and abroad.

Watching the Forum online is free with registration here

See the Forum agenda HERE