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April 9-12, 2025

Delphi Economic Forum X

Speaker

Symeon G. Tsomokos

Founder & President

Delphi Economic Forum, Greece

Symeon Tsomokos is the Founder and President of Delphi Economic Forum, an independent and impartial non-profit organization committed to deliver and promote innovative ideas for sustainable and competitive growth for Southeast Europe. He established SGT S.A in Athens in 1997, and TGI in Belgrade in 2001 and in Brussels in 2016, which he presides successfully all these years. He is the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Serbia in the region of Thessaly in Greece. He is also the Founder of the Business Council for Greece-United States, the Greek-Hungarian Business Council, the Greek-Egyptian Business Council, while in 2006 he established the Greece-Serbia Chamber of Commerce which he presides. In the past he has served as Commercial Specialist at the US Embassy in Athens (1973-1980) and CEO at the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce (1980-1997). He has also served as Secretary General & Treasurer of the Council of the American Chambers of Commerce based in Europe (1990-1993) and as Secretary General of the Business Council Greece-Turkey (1993-1998). In 1993, he was an Eisenhower Exchange Fellow.

Statements

H.E. Constantine An. Tassoulas, President of the Hellenic Republic

H.E. Rumen Radev, President of the Republic of Bulgaria

Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, France

Welcome Remarks

Panagiotis Roilos, President, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece

Fanis Spanos, Governor, Region of Central Greece

Panagiotis Tagalis, Mayor of Delphi

Chair of the Opening Session: Symeon G. Tsomokos, Delphi Economic Forum

by Europa Nostra & ELLINIKI ETAIRIA - Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage

Opening Addresses by Co-organisers of the Costa Carras European Citizens Awards

✓ Sneška Quadvlieg-Mihailovic, Secretary General, Europa Nostra

✓ Lydia Carras, Founder & President, ELLINIKI ETAIRIA - Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage

Addresses by the Founding Partners of the Costa Carras European Citizens Awards

✓ Symeon G. Tsomokos, Delphi Economic Forum

✓ Anastasios Paul Leventis, Chairman, A.G. Leventis Foundation

✓ Ioannis Tsakiris, Vice-President, European Investment Bank

Presentation of the Gold Award

✓ Xenia Loizidou, Chair of the Board of Directors of AKTI Project and Research Centre / Gold Award Laureate

Presentation of the Silver Award

✓ Sara Roversi, President of the Future Food Institute and Paideia Campus / Silver Award Laureate

Closing Remarks

Launch of the Call for Entries for the Costa Carras European Citizens Awards 2026

Sneška Quadvlieg-Mihailovic, Secretary General, Europa Nostra

Shiva Dustdar, Director, Head of EIB Institute

Ιntroduction by Symeon G. Tsomokos