Dr P. Roy Vagelos is an eminent figure of the American pharmaceutical community and the Greek diaspora. Born Pindaros Vagelos to Greek immigrants in New Jersey during the Great Depression, he managed, with hard work and perseverance, to achieve success.
Could it be that Stanford Professor John Ioannidis helped decide US President Donald Trump’s stance on coronavirus, especially his opposition to lockdowns? Quite likely, according to news website Buzzfeed.
Prayer plays an important role in the lives of the majority of Greeks, 73% to be exact, putting the country in second place, after Turkey, in a group of 34 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center.
Bissera Pentcheva, a professor of classics at Stanford University, is an internationally renowned scholar on Hagia Sophia. Her book “Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space and Spirit in Byzantium” received the 2018 Award in Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion.
Soner Cagaptay is an American political scientist of Turkish descent and the author of several books on modern Turkey and its strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, most recently of the critically acclaimed “Erdogan’s Empire.”
He’s not even 34 and he’s already professor of economics at Stanford University in California. In 2018 he was awarded the prize for best young French economist.
Hong Kong is back on front pages around the world in two different but overlapping ways. While street protests have again gathered pace after China decided to introduce a new security law that some claim might threaten the “one country, two systems” principle agreed to when Britain handed the territory over to China in 1997, Hong Kong has also met with admiration for its success in battling the virus.
In an interview with Kathimerini, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair talks about the rise of authoritarian populism, UK-Greece relations, Turkish aggression, the western world versus China and how Brexit can be salvaged, if at all.
Exploring the elements that shape great personalities and the principles that define them is a process that is both fascinating and useful. One such endeavor was carried out by Vassilis Papadopoulos, a former ambassador and the general secretary of the Presidency of the Hellenic Republic, in his book “Diplomacy and Poetry: The Case of Giorgos Seferis,” published in Greek by Ikaros.
Is the coronavirus the last chance for us to bring about fundamental changes in the world, or will the taming of the pandemic give our apparently expired economic model a new lease of life?
As Greece enters the fourth phase of easing restrictions that were imposed in March to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, an eminent Greek professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dimitris Bertsimas, has developed an epidemiological model that suggests Greece is unlikely to see a significant increase in Covid-19 cases over the summer.
When I spoke with Fukuyama on Skype recently, I asked him why liberal democracy creates so much boredom. He sighed and smiled, but instantly pointed out a contradiction that is central to the human spirit.
Professor Joseph Nye is one of the world’s most distinguished political scientists and thinkers and has made a considerable contribution to international relations in the last 50 years.
Tom Frieden is one of the world’s top experts in health policy and administration as well as everything concerning pandemics, and that’s why his advice is always take into consideration in the US and often elsewhere too.
The former US ambassador talked to Kathimerini about Greece’s remarkable performance in tackling the crisis, the challenges Europe and the US are facing, President Donald Trump and how the pandemic is influencing the global balance of power.
It’s been a year since one of Europe’s most renowned intellectuals, Bernard-Henri Levy, came to Athens and performed his monologue “Looking for Europe” at the Pallas Theater. The iconoclastic French philosopher enlivens speech by charging it with the refreshing power of competing ideas.
“The 13033 hotline was set up in just 15 hours,” Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis told Kathimerini, describing his ministry’s race last month to get everything in place over the space of just one weekend as the government announced restrictions on public movement.
Romano Prodi, Pprofessor of economics, European Commission president from 1999 to 2004, and two-time prime minister of Italy, is a friend of Greece. The veteran Italian politician talked to Kathimerini from his home in Bologna.
Jeffrey Sachs is an eminent American economist and professor of sustainable development at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Leading Italian economist Luigi Buttiglione recently spoke to Kathimerini about the public health crisis and the corresponding financial and economic crises. Following his tenure as senior economist at the Research Department of Banca d’Italia (1989-2000), he has achieved an impressive career in the global financial sector.