“Greece has experienced an impressive transformation in recent years and it inspires my respect and admiration,” said Francis Maude, member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, former minister and current head of a consulting firm, speaking at the 2nd Superfund Summit (The Second Growthfund Summit), which is being held today at Zappeio Megaro.

Lord Francis Maude in particular expressed his admiration for what the current government has managed to achieve “in order to bring about a transformation and make the country attractive to investors and workers to generate money and at the same time how the lives of the citizens of the country have improved”. .

The highlight of his political career was his position as Minister of State for Trade and Investment, 2010-2015, when he created the Efficiency and Reform Group. His reforms have saved the UK £75bn over 5 years. dollars.

As he explained, in the first year of his ministerial term (2010-011) there was a renegotiation with the UK’s 27 largest suppliers. “I called the CEOs of the government agencies and I just told them ‘right now you have contracts with 27 different clients. From now on you’re going to have just one client and that’s going to be me and we’re going to look at the whole range of contracts and see where there are overlaps to see where there are inconsistencies and how we can negotiate savings”. With this renegotiation, he added, 1 billion were saved. dollars, while in the following years the savings increased progressively, as the contracts were multi-year.

Asked about this by the journalist Ilias Siakandaris, the British politician observed for Greece that significant improvements have been made in terms of quality and efficiency in the management and delivery of major projects and advised financial management issues (human resources, pre-contracts, commercial supplies, projects) to are treated “in a more holistic way” in order to achieve greater capital savings.