The international “2014 Multinational Finance Society Winter Conference” titled “Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Challenges and Prospects” will be held between December 14-16 in Athens, Greece.

The conference is organized by the Center of Planning of Economic Research (CPER) and the Multinational Finance Society and the supervisors would be Mr. Filippas, President and Scientific Director of the CPER and Professor at the University of Piraeus and Mr. Theodossiou, Professor at the Technological University of Cyprus.

The aim of the conference is to conduct an open debate between politicians, academics, researchers, doctoral candidates and professionals from various international organizations on current economic issues and empirical findings which concern the recent crisis of Eurozone.

The keynote speakers would be Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis and Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras.

During the conference, there will be a roundtable debate titled “Crisis in the Eurozone: The case of Cyprus and Greece”, whereas the invitation to the conference will be sent to 9,000 university professors from around the world.

The following speakers will participate in the debate:

-Dimitris Vayanos, Professor of Finance and Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality at the London School of Economics
-Notis Mitarakis, Deputy Development and Competitiveness Minister
-Philippos Sachinidis, member of Parliament (and lawmaker with PASOK).
-Georgios Stathakis, member of Parliament (lawmaker with PASOK) and professor of Political Economy
-Christos Staikouras, Deputy Finance Minister
-Christis Hassapis, president of the Board of Directors in the Bank of Cyprus and deputy professor in the University of Cyprus