Hellas 2022 | Better Finance | 15 June 2022 | Royal Olympic Hotel Athens, 28-34 Athanasiou Diakou Street Athens, 117 43 Greece

As Greece heads towards elections and looks to overhaul its pension system, it is the perfect time to take stock of how Greek Capital Markets are doing and how the country aims to tackle its pension challenges.

Within the context of the continued development of a European Capital Markets Union and increased attention to Sustainable Finance, Greece has been ramping up its investor protection credentials whilst restoring its reputation with Credit Rating Agencies and the European finance community.

To usher in this new era of adequate pensions, sustainable finance and investor protection in Greece and join the debate on how to best tackle the opportunities and challenges presented by the ongoing Greek pension reform and how the Pan-European Personal Pension Product can play a role in this process.

Boosted by the unprecedented multibillion EU Recovery Fund package and other European funding initiatives, Greece has become one of the “hottest” investments destinations in the region, attracting a variety of investors from all around the world, a theme which will also be highlighted in the conference agenda.

High-level Greek policymakers and stakeholders will be joined by their European counterparts, including representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Supervisory Authorities, to engage in a spirited debate.

2022 Speakers

John Kyriakopoulos
Chairman, Hellenic Investors Association (Hellinas)

Christos Staikouras
Minister of Finance

John Kyriakopoulos
Chairman, Hellenic Investors Association

Guillaume Prache
Managing Director, BETTER FINANCE

KEYNOTE SPEECH:

Fausto Parente
Executive Director, European Insurance & Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)

Sophia Kaunenaki-Efraimoglou
President of the National Chamber Network of Greek Women Entrepneurs, Vice President of the BoDE of the Athens Chamber of Commerce

Harry Theoharis
Member of the Hellenic Parliament, Former Minister of Tourism

Jonas Fernandez
MEP ECON Committee Member

Kostis Hatzidakis
Minister of Labour and Social, Affairs of the Hellenic Republic

Pavlina Karasiotou
General Secretariat of Social
Insurance, Ministry of Labour & Social Affairs, President
of the Hellenic Auxiliary Pensions Defined Contributions
Fund (ΤΕΚΑ)

MODERATOR:

Notis Necharios
Journalist

Marina Protonotariou
Journalist

Jella Benner Heinacher
Dep. General Manager DSW

Christos Konstas
Journalist

PANELISTS:

Natasha Cazenave
Executive Director of the European Securities and Markets Authority

Olav Haazen, PhD, Principal Attorney at Grant & Eisenhofer, Cross Border securities fraud and antitrust litigation, Head of Litigation Team at ICSID, Arbitration Washington DC,,Professor at Leiden University

Nikolas Porfyris
Chief Past Trading & International Business Development Officer, Athens Exchange Group

Rainer Riess
Director General, Federation of European Stack Exchanges(FESE)

Jean Paul Servais
Chairman, Belgian Financial Services & Markets Authority IFSMA

Anastasia Stamou
Vice Chair of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC)

John Doxaras
CEO, Warply

Lambis Pachigiannakis
Investment Manager, Sani/Ikas Group

Leonidas Papakonstantinou
Vice President & CEO Merit Stock Exchange SA

Athanasios Polychronopoulos
Founder & CEO, Polygreen

George Saliaris-Fosseas
Partner, Big Pi Ventures

Stefanos Chandakas
Chairman of the Board, Mitera Hospital, Hygaia Healthcare group

Leda Condoyanni
Corporate Governance Director, MYTILINEOUS

Fabrice Dermarigny
Global Head Global Head of Financial Advisory Services
and Capital Markets Activities, Mazars

Sven Gentner
Head of Unit - Corporate reporting, Audit and Credit Rating
Agencies, European Commission

Ben Granjé
CEO, Individual Investor Federation of Belgium/Flanders (VFB)

Saskia Slomp
CEO, European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG)

Mike Suffield
Director of Professional Insights, Association of Chartered
Certified Accountants (ACCA)

Lee White
Executive Director, IFRS Foundation

Yannis Chatzitheodosiou
President of the Athens Chamber of Commerce,
President & CEO MegaBrokers SA

Theodore Κrintas
Founder & CEO, Koubaras
Miltiadis Nektarios, Emeritus Professor, Department of Statistics & Insurance
Science, University of Piraeus, ex-Governor of Social Security (ΙΚΑ)

Christos Nounis
President of the Hellenic Union of Institutions
for Occupational Retirement Provision (ELETEA)

John Peristeris
Actuary, South-eastern Insurance Broker Consultant