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CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
Featuring<br />
Highlights from<br />
Ideagen's Global<br />
Impact Summit in<br />
Athens, Greece<br />
<br />
Global<br />
PLUS<br />
AARP<br />
Presents: The<br />
Purpose Prize<br />
Honorees<br />
Impact<br />
Summit<br />
Edition<br />
Panagiotis Zikos<br />
CEO & Managing Director, Otis Greece and Cyprus
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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<br />
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Presents: The<br />
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Honorees<br />
Global<br />
Impact<br />
Summit<br />
Edition<br />
Alex Costopoulos<br />
Secretary General, AMCHAM Greece<br />
Founder & CEO, FORESIGHT
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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<br />
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Honorees<br />
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Edition<br />
Amb. Ioannis Vrailas<br />
Permanent Representative of Greece to the EU
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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Summit<br />
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Honorees<br />
Yanna Darilis<br />
Media Executive & On-Air Talent
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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<br />
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Honorees<br />
Global<br />
Impact<br />
Summit<br />
Edition<br />
Amb. Angelos Pangratis (ret.)<br />
Former EU Ambassador
Bill Ritcey-Donohue<br />
Vice President of National Security,<br />
Govini<br />
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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PLUS<br />
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Maria Loi<br />
Chef & Founder, Loi Brand
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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Tilemachos Moraitis<br />
Government & Corporate Affairs<br />
Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Baltics and<br />
Ukraine, Microsoft
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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Edition<br />
Katerina Stathopoulou<br />
Governor, The International<br />
Propeller Club Port of Piraeus
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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Impact<br />
Summit<br />
Edition<br />
Konstantinos Michanetzis<br />
Founder & CEO<br />
Sylipsis Corporation
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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<br />
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Christos Stamatis<br />
CEO, Stevia Hellas Cooperative
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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Purpose Prize<br />
Honorees<br />
Nicolaos Theodossiou<br />
Chair of SDSN Black Sea
CATALYZE.<br />
B Y I D E A G E N <strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong><br />
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Summit<br />
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Vice Admiral Vasilios Martzoukos<br />
Vice President of ELISME
IMPACTS OF<br />
DATA DRIVEN<br />
SOLUTIONS<br />
EXPLIANED<br />
BILL RITCEY-DONOHUE<br />
VICE PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL<br />
SECURITY, GOVINI<br />
George Sifakis:<br />
What, and how does data science and the optimization of it help to solve critical issues across<br />
society?<br />
Bill Ritcey- Donohue:<br />
Well, thank you very much, George. I have to say being here in [Greece] the cradle of Western<br />
civilization is humbling. And to be asked that question of how do you make decisions? Well, the<br />
Greeks have been trying to philosophize that for thousands of years. So first of all, I would say, it's<br />
already been mentioned several times, but we take a little bit of a different approach. I like to<br />
think, what you measure you can manage and make decisions on. We say, in God we trust, all<br />
others, bring your data.<br />
So what we try to do is take the objective, the goal, the outcome that is trying to be decided, and<br />
get clean data. So, the fact of the matter is we are overwhelmed with data. You can go on in your<br />
pocket right now and have more data than we've ever had in history in just your little hand, what<br />
do you do with the data? How do you make it relevant to what you are trying to decide, and then<br />
give yourselves an iterative approach to it? You're never going to be right the first time. With data<br />
it’s not a game show. If you get the right answer, it's improving, it's getting better, then It's<br />
measuring that improvement. We call it in the military an OODA loop- Observe, Orient, Decide, and<br />
Act. So understand where you are, orient to what your goal is, decide, act, and then do it again and<br />
repeat. The quicker you can do that, and the more agile you are, as we learned in the last panel, the<br />
better you'll get. And when you keep measuring that and sharing that with others so they can do<br />
the same thing we start to see a chain reaction of improvements being made.<br />
CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 1
ESTABLISHING<br />
AN SDG<br />
OBSERVATORY<br />
GRIGORIS ZAROTIADIS:<br />
DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND<br />
POLITICAL SCIENCES, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY<br />
The SDSN is the Sustainable Development Solutions Network of the United Nations,<br />
which is responsible for the worldwide promotion of the SDGs and the way they are<br />
organized. It is organized in national and regional chapters in nodes. One of these<br />
chapters, which is responsible for the whole Black Sea region, is located at Aristotle<br />
University. This chapter reveals the importance of Greece and FAI having such an<br />
important and prestigious contributing initiative hosted in FAI. In the frame of SDSN and<br />
the Black Sea, one of the activities that we realized is of great importance is the study<br />
conducted on the feasibility of creating an observatory for SDGs in the Black Sea. This<br />
was done with the support of the Black Sea economic cooperation and funding from BIS.<br />
Now, let me say just a few words about the idea we have on the content, goals, and<br />
activities that can be realized with an observatory in the Black Sea. First of all, to have a<br />
successful implementation of the SDGs in the time span the whole world community<br />
has defined in 2015, we need to have continuous observation, and reporting on the<br />
progress we are making in different areas of the world. And this is the main activity that<br />
will be realized in the frame of a Black Sea Observatory. The Observatory is important for<br />
the realization of the SDGs in terms of socioeconomic aspects, but also in terms of<br />
environmental aspects. Besides the main activity of the observatory, which will be<br />
reporting SDG Progress there are two other additional activities that are very important.<br />
One is the awareness raising and the realization of specifically focused seminars and<br />
workshops for staff in both the public and private stakeholders from the region to<br />
strengthen their ability to contribute to the SDGs. The third activity, which is also very<br />
important based on the reports and the studies we have done; is we want to create a<br />
consulting service provided not only for the public but also for the private sector. Let me<br />
give you an example of what it could mean. For instance, the observatory could support<br />
private and public entities in raising funds to support the SDGs. So, at Aristotle University<br />
we are in an effort right now to mobilize the necessary funding and support to start this<br />
great Observatory.<br />
CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 3
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CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 4
Health For A Better World<br />
Dr. Rod<br />
Hochman,<br />
President of<br />
Providence
GREECE'S BLUE<br />
ECONOMY TAPS<br />
INTO OTHER<br />
EMERGING<br />
SECTORS<br />
D R . M A R Y P A P A S C H I N O P O U L O U<br />
C O R P O R A T E D I P L O M A T , A U T H O R ,<br />
L E C T U R E R , F A C I L I T A T O R<br />
I certainly won’t bore our audience with statistics, but I think that it's important to mention certain<br />
numbers because as Patra said, what we cannot measure, is what we do not know. So I'm very<br />
grateful to talk actually, about how Greece is faring worldwide and on an EU level. And this has to<br />
do with the blue economy. So just for all of us to remember Greece belongs among the big five in<br />
the European Union when it comes down to the gross percentage of added value and the blue<br />
economy. And it's among the big three when it comes down to employment, related to the blue<br />
economy. So I think that these two parameters show us very clearly where we stand with 350,000<br />
jobs that are related to the blue economy and a percentage of 5%, of GDP related to blue growth,<br />
perhaps for you to get, a comparison. I was looking at US figures and the US ocean economy has 2.3<br />
million jobs related to the ocean economy and just about 2% of the US’s GDP is linked to the blue<br />
economy. So if you just compare and you understand what we're comparing, you will see how<br />
significant the blue economy is for us now. It is not just that we have certain sectors that are<br />
dominating the Greek economy and it is, first of all, coastal tourism which again, for us is a big issue.<br />
And then we have, of course, maritime transport. I don't have to tell anybody that with 20% of the<br />
global fleet, that we, Greece, are the global leader in shipping. Then as a third sector dominating<br />
the great blue economy, we have the so-called living resources. If you have a look at the numbers<br />
again, you will see that there is quite an imbalance there. So it's about 75% of the jobs that are<br />
hanging together with coastal tourism, and about 15 to 16% to maritime transport and the rest, to<br />
living resources. So, this is a strength, but it's also a kind of a challenge for the future. We should<br />
definitely look towards a Greek economy that is more orientated toward emerging sectors.<br />
CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 10
The New Dynamics<br />
of The European<br />
Green Deal<br />
IOANNIS VRAILAS<br />
DEPUTY HEAD OF THE EU DELEGATION TO THE<br />
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK<br />
Amb. Ioannis Vrailas:<br />
One flagship project that I want to particularly emphasize is the European<br />
Green deal. It's a radical transformation of our economies and energy mix.<br />
It's a combination of policies aiming at tackling climate change by<br />
ensuring that this transition will be fair and just, leaving no one behind.<br />
The member states of the EU the council agreed recently to fit 55<br />
legislative packages. I don't want to bore you with all the various<br />
institutions that come into play in the decision-making in Brussels, but we<br />
hope that we can reach a final agreement with the European Parliament<br />
before 2023. This European Green Deal has several dealings. The first one<br />
is of course the environmental dimension and the need for urgent action.<br />
The Paris agreement and the SDGs have set the guiding framework at the<br />
global level. NDU has undertaken a leading role in this effort by first<br />
declaring its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, it is true that we<br />
account for a small part of the global emissions, but we hope that the<br />
ambitious standards that we have set for ourselves will act as a normative<br />
power will lead by example, especially with regard to the United States<br />
and to China. The second one is the geopolitical aspect and the external<br />
dimension of climate action. The green deal influences the used political<br />
and trade relations in its neighborhood, but also beyond dependence on<br />
fossil fuels which affects long stand dynamics with traditional gas and oil<br />
suppliers.<br />
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The New Dynamics of<br />
The European Green<br />
Deal continued...<br />
Amb. Ioannis Vrailas:<br />
The recent Russian aggression in Ukraine has only accelerated the<br />
process that was already on track with the EU now aiming at eradicating<br />
its dependence on Russian fossil fuels, as soon as possible through its<br />
ambitious Repair EU plan. We also have new trade instruments such as<br />
the carbon adjustment border mechanism, which will reshape trade<br />
dynamics with the countries. It's definitely an issue that requires special<br />
attention in order to avoid carbon leakage. And of course, there's a<br />
possibility of cooperation of cooperating with several countries in our<br />
region, not least in the Middle East and North Africa and Greece. Greece<br />
because of its geographic location is extremely well placed to, and in fact,<br />
it's already playing an important role with several interesting projects,<br />
well underway. The third reading of this dimension of societal<br />
acceptance, which is key to the success of our endeavor and the pathway<br />
towards net zero emissions will require hard work and will inevitably put<br />
pressure on vulnerable citizens and regions in transition.<br />
The ongoing energy crisis coming on top of the recent COVID D 19<br />
pandemic has also demonstrated that there's discrepancies between the<br />
member states in that every EU member state has a different starting<br />
point in terms of the mix as well as the GDP. So, what we're trying to do in<br />
the EU is to agree on an effective collective response that will mitigate the<br />
impact of a problem affecting the level playing field of the single market.<br />
These are drawbacks that exist. We're aware of them. They will be<br />
recurrent in the future. We hope we'll do everything we can so that they<br />
do not derail the whole effort. Only teamwork and collective action are<br />
the answer to the problem.<br />
CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 11
IDEAGEN GLOBAL IMPACT SUMMIT<br />
Streaming <strong>September</strong> 8th on Ideagen TV<br />
Ideagen Global "Presented Globally by Microsoft"<br />
and in collaboration with ACS Athens and<br />
ALLILON.net and supported by the American Hellenic<br />
Institute is pleased to present the Ideagen Global<br />
Impact Summit in Athens, Greece with this global<br />
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This summit highlights the importance of creating a<br />
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In Collaboration with:<br />
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CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 13
HOLISTIC EDUCATION, IN A TECHNOLOGICAL<br />
WORLD<br />
P E G G Y P E L O N I S : P R E S I D E N T , A C S<br />
A T H E N S<br />
It takes holistic education, educating the mind,<br />
the body, and the soul. And what do I mean by<br />
that? It's really important today, and as we<br />
talked about earlier, that change is happening<br />
at a very rapid pace. Technology is advancing<br />
quickly, and artificial intelligence is entering<br />
our lives. Change is a constant in our lives. We<br />
were called on to respond to change just<br />
recently with COVID. The children in the world<br />
looked to the adults for the answers, and the<br />
adults had no answers. The adults looked to<br />
the authorities for the answers, and the<br />
authorities had no answers because this<br />
change took us by surprise. Change is going to<br />
continue, and it's happening on multiple levels<br />
continuously.<br />
What's happening in the world of education is the global economy is creating higher<br />
levels of competition. Requiring higher levels of expertise, requiring people who know<br />
themselves better, who understand the world better, who are able to manage<br />
themselves, be self-directed, be more independent and knowledgeable at the same<br />
time. This means that we have to train young people at a higher level of mental<br />
complexity earlier. Of course, this places a lot of psychological stress on students, but<br />
people are very resilient, and young people are very resilient.<br />
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HOLISTIC EDUCATION, IN A<br />
TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD,<br />
CONTINUED...<br />
We want to be able to teach them not only to respond and cope with change, as we<br />
did with the pandemic. We want to teach them to be able to navigate change and<br />
most importantly, to shape change, to initiate change so that we don't, and they don't<br />
become victims of change. How do we do this? First of all, of course, academics are<br />
very important. Not just math, not just science, not just technology, but the classics.<br />
Philosophy, literature, music, and art, these are things that teach us how to think<br />
critically. We need to know how to synthesize information. We need to know how to<br />
make decisions about things, and we need to make decisions through an ethical lens<br />
if we have any hope of improving life and living on the planet. So when we talk about<br />
educating kids holistically, we talk about providing the skills and the knowledge so<br />
that they can succeed in a very competitive world, but we're also talking about<br />
creating conscious, responsible citizens. People who will take that knowledge and skill<br />
and turn it into action in the world. That means being able to cultivate compassion,<br />
being able to cultivate psychological muscle, so that they can turn all of these things<br />
into positive action to improve life and living on the planet.<br />
CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 14
CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 15<br />
THE NEW<br />
CURRENCY OF<br />
THE FUTURE<br />
Konstantinos Michanetzis:<br />
Founder at Sylipsis<br />
Corporation<br />
Now skills are the new currency of the<br />
future, and it's the expression of the<br />
industry to try and cope with the fastchanging<br />
things that happen in<br />
education. Education and skills are<br />
two things that come together but<br />
also contradict a little bit. Skills are<br />
against the traditional educational<br />
systems we have seen, and they<br />
expressed the need for the industry to<br />
bring more and more at a faster pace.<br />
That's why now we are speaking about degrees and skills, and even Google announced a<br />
few months ago that they will be hiring people without degrees based on skills. The<br />
reason they do this is not because they don't like degrees, but because they are trying to<br />
cover the high demand for skills in the marketplace that the pace of universities cannot.<br />
We are in this era now where people will need to upscale all the time, and this will<br />
become even more demanding as efficient/artificial intelligence comes in and it'll start<br />
taking jobs from our people. We will need to switch careers and switch skills to move in<br />
another direction. So, yes, right now, we have marketplaces for skills.
CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 21<br />
THE NEW CURRENCY OF THE FUTURE,<br />
CONTINUED...<br />
These were available for many years before the pandemic appeared, but they mostly<br />
focused on specific industries. The IT industry and the digital art industry were mostly<br />
utilizing this in marketplaces, then the pandemic happened, and this was a huge<br />
shift. Companies had to change the way they work. They had to work with remote<br />
workers, they had to learn tools, and they had to learn how to manage remote<br />
workers. This is a big difference. It's not about learning the tools, having tools, or<br />
having infrastructure. What changed with the pandemic is the understanding of<br />
management. Companies felt safe. Now they can outsource production to people<br />
remotely, and they can do the job equally as well as they used to do, some even<br />
better than before having teams in offices. They could reduce facilities and expenses,<br />
workers were happier because they were not commuting, and they could work from<br />
home. And this changed the whole concept. Now that we have this idea that we<br />
understand how to manage remote teams globally, a great door has opened.<br />
Now, a great door opens and companies can start outsourcing not only digital skills.<br />
We see a new marketplace appearing in the in the industry. And before we had only<br />
marketplaces, for it and digital arts. Now we see marketplaces for legal services. We<br />
see marketplaces for dental, for medical services, or we see marketplaces for<br />
shipping services. And it's not only about our sourcing, but getting access to skills.<br />
And this is I think, where it's going, how skills are going to change the way we<br />
operate as businesses and as individuals.
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TILEMACHOS MORAITIS:<br />
GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS MANAGER AT MICROSOFT<br />
GREECE, CYPRUS, MALTA, BALTICS & UKRAINE<br />
If you ask the ministry of digital transformation in Ukraine, "What was the key point that<br />
turned the wave around in Ukraine and allowed them to confront attacks from Russia,<br />
not only the kinetic attacks but also the immense cyber attacks." That was the point<br />
that they understood, and they turned to big tech companies such as Microsoft and<br />
were able to deploy very modern tools to continue their operations. One month into the<br />
war, I was receiving emails because, in my role, I cover Ukraine. I was receiving emails<br />
asking me, "What is the status of the Ukrainian government? Are they operational?" And<br />
yes, they were. Until now, they have managed to be operational because they use the<br />
modern digital tools available to continue their work. Of course, they also used these<br />
tools to confront immense cyber attacks from Russia. These were unprecedented times<br />
in terms of cyber security. Now, I would like to turn this discussion to a more normal<br />
environment and context, because in Ukraine, there's a war, and it's a bit extreme.<br />
There's also the aspect of business and what businesses are doing in terms of<br />
confronting these challenges. And again, I would say that digital technology here offers<br />
the best solutions. And why is that? Because in a world that we live in where various<br />
resources are becoming more scarce, technology is the only solution that can scale up.<br />
You can work longer, and you can work harder, but there is a ceiling on that. Technology<br />
is the best scalable solution, and I would like to give you examples of what Microsoft is<br />
doing to confront the affirmation challenges. I would like to focus on what we're doing<br />
to prevent the climate crisis, the environmental crisis. We work on two levels in that<br />
front, first internally, where we announced very ambitious goals to become zero waste,<br />
carbon negative, and water positive by 2030. Even more by 2050, Microsoft is aiming to<br />
remove all historic emissions that have been produced since day one of our operations.<br />
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MAKING TECHNOLOGY<br />
SCALABLE, CONTINUED...<br />
Tilemachos Moraitis:<br />
You can understand how important that is.<br />
Another example, we recently announced<br />
that our data center in Sweden is operating<br />
and running on 100% renewable energy. We<br />
are producing zero waste by either recycling<br />
or repurposing materials removed from our<br />
infrastructure. Now on an external level,<br />
what we do is provide the tools to<br />
organizations and people that have<br />
embarked or are continuing their<br />
sustainability journey to have success on it.<br />
We think that the most important aspect in<br />
this, and I would also refer to the quote from<br />
Dr. Papaschinopoulou who said that you<br />
cannot measure what you don't know. It's<br />
exactly what the digital tools are providing;<br />
knowledge data about what we are doing<br />
ILEMACHOS MORAITIS:<br />
GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE<br />
AFFAIRS MANAGER AT MICROSOFT<br />
GREECE, CYPRUS, MALTA, BALTICS &<br />
UKRAINE<br />
<br />
and what the measures we are taking result<br />
in, so that we improve our actions in<br />
tackling these problems. In closing, I would<br />
say that overall digital technology is not<br />
about only business growth. It's about<br />
preserving and protecting fundamental<br />
human rights and needs.
THE FUNDAMENTALS<br />
OF RE-SKILLING<br />
ALEX COSTOPOULOS:<br />
OWNER, FORESIGHT STRATEGY &<br />
COMMUNICATIONS;<br />
We have to find a way to work together. To<br />
collectively synthesize and regenerate the<br />
discussion. I agree we have to think from the<br />
beginning about all the things that we think<br />
we know. We are talking about re-skilling,<br />
and yet we, although it sounds tremendously<br />
arrogant and please don't take it that way;<br />
acting as leaders in certain fields, we need to<br />
be re-skilled and rethink how we are working<br />
together.<br />
I think the media is doing a large job, but the media is us. The narrative that we<br />
create, it's what goes to the media. The media asks us about things, and I think most<br />
of the time. We stick to buzzwords. We stick to what's easy. We stick to what won't<br />
create problems with our friends, whether in politics or business or what will keep us<br />
safe. But it's a period, in my opinion, that is not about keeping us safe but about<br />
making sure that it will be safer for our kids to pursue their dreams; to find what they<br />
love. I'm sure if we ask a hundred students whether they think their CV is more<br />
important than falling in love, they will tell you the CV, but it's that idea of being able<br />
to fall in love, to live your life, to find what you wanna spend your life doing every day.<br />
I think it's those fundamentals that we need to go back to; to work together. This is<br />
how the media or the broader communications industry will portray our stories, and<br />
maybe we can change something<br />
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GREECE'S GREAT HIGHWAY<br />
GREEK VICE ADMIRAL VASILIOS<br />
MARTZOUKOS<br />
We should approach the sea as a great highway<br />
where travel and traffic are much easier and<br />
cheaper than by land. When we are talking about<br />
a sea power, we are talking about a force<br />
multiplier directly connected to wealth, wellbeing,<br />
opportunities, progress, influence, middle<br />
class, and democracy; all these things are directly<br />
connected. Historically, it's not possible for a<br />
maritime power to have, for a long time at least, a<br />
dictatorship.<br />
It's impossible because the internal society is organized in such a way that makes it<br />
impossible to happen. Now Thucydides, or Thoukydídis in Greek, has very much<br />
analytically described the benefits of being a state maritime power. Admiral Alfred<br />
Thayer Mahan, the most important American strategist of the 19th century, set the<br />
necessary conditions for a state to turn into a maritime power. The state has, has to<br />
have access to critical sea roots. Second is to have a coastline, which must be suitable<br />
for literal activities. It must have a defensible harbor linked to the interior. A proper<br />
national character of each people and mainly people who tend to trade, and last but not<br />
least, a governmental attitude and process that affects the outlook of that state as a<br />
Naval power abroad. So Greece satisfies all these criteria, this is why it has a long<br />
tradition as a maritime power, and all the statistics today agree that Greece continues<br />
to be a great maritime power.
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CONTINUED...<br />
What is needed now is a holistic maritime vision and policy in order to maximize these<br />
benefits. This kind of vision would see Greece as a maritime economic center of the<br />
Eastern Mediterranean, a transportation and energy hub, a sustaining and further<br />
improving shipping, leisure and tourism 12 months per year, fishing and fisheries,<br />
strategic development, improving maritime services, exploiting undersea<br />
hydrocarbons, and develop renewable energy. So, in conclusion, I would say that a<br />
maritime strategy should focus on six main sectors. First is transport, which is shipping,<br />
domestic navigation, ports, terminals, and shipbuilding. Services, which are brokers,<br />
agents, bankers, inspections, financing, insurance, pilots, maritime law rescue, and ship<br />
supply. Third is resource exploitation, fishing, hydrocarbons, etc. The public sector,<br />
which includes the Navy, Coast Guard, training, education, governance, hydrographic<br />
institutions, etc. Leisure and tourism, meaning cruising, leisure activities, yachting, and<br />
marinas. And last is research, oceanography and oceanology institutes, maritime<br />
academies, etc. So besides all these formation benefits, we could additionally have<br />
more benefits like keeping and increasing the populations on the Greek islands. That is<br />
very important. Also, this kind of maritime strategy will limit the Turkish expansion<br />
policy. More Greeks will occupy maritime professions, and last but not least young<br />
Greeks, scientists, and technicians will not flee abroad since they will have jobs here.<br />
Thank you.
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COOPER HENDERSON<br />
Lead Publication Editor<br />
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Co-Editor and Chief of Staff<br />
WILL MARTIN<br />
Co-Editor and Senior Fellow<br />
Pictured Top to Bottom<br />
Microsoft's Tilemachos Moraitis<br />
ACS Athens's Peggy Pelonis<br />
Amb. Angelos Pangratis (ret.)<br />
Top Left: Ideagen's Global Impact Summit