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SUMMARY:Greek Prime Ministers in the eye of the storm
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (Malaysia Audi
 torium\, Centre Building)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 29 April 2026 6.30pm - 8pmJoin us for this book laun
 ch of Greek Prime Ministers in the Eye of the Storm: Crisis Management and
  Institutional Change\, featuring authors Kevin Featherstone and Dimitris 
 Papadimitriou.When\, and how\, might crises force institutions to change? 
 Crisis management prompts expectations of exceptional behaviour\, leaders 
 raising their 'game'\, and of being empowered. The Greek crisis of 2009-18
  was severe: threatening bankruptcy and Greece's exit from the euro. Yet\,
  in a previous study of 2015\, Featherstone and Papadimitriou identified k
 ey institutional weaknesses embedded within Greek governments: of poor cen
 tral control and coordination\, the very qualities needed in a crisis. So\
 , how far did the crisis in Greece enable actors to overcome these critica
 l weaknesses? What lessons were drawn\, and when? Exploring change in a cr
 isis requires careful case study. Drawing on interviews with an extensive 
 range of personnel\, including each crisis Greek prime minister\, the auth
 ors meticulously explore how the four prime ministers of the period handle
 d the challenges of crisis management.Meet our speakers and chairKevin Fea
 therstone is Emeritus Professor (European Institute) and Research Affiliat
 e at the Hellenic Observatory\, LSE. He was Director of the Hellenic Obser
 vatory from 2002 to 2024. He served as Head of the European Institute in 2
 004-7\, 2011-12\, and 2015-18. He has held visiting positions at the Unive
 rsity of Minnesota\; New York University\; Harvard University\; and\, the 
 European University Institute (Firenze). Before LSE\, he held academic pos
 ts at the universities of Stirling and Bradford.Dimitris Papadimitriou is 
 Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester\, where he 
 also serves as the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. In 2006/7 he wa
 s a S.J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University. In 2010 
 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Macmillan Centre of International and Area
  Studies\, Yale University and a National Bank of Greece Senior Research F
 ellow at the Hellenic Observatory at LSE. He was the Director of the Manch
 ester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (2011-2022) and he is currently the
  co-Editor of the book series on European Politics with Manchester Univers
 ity Press. His is the (co)author/editor of nine books and numerous academi
 c articles. His latest book (co-authored with Kevin Featherstone)\, Prime 
 Ministers in the Eye of the Storm: crisis management and institutional cha
 nge in Greece was published by Oxford University Press in 2025.Declan Cost
 ello is the Deputy Director General in DG ECFIN since 2019. He is currentl
 y responsible for supervising the work of DG ECFIN’s country desks\, the
  implementation of fiscal surveillance under the Stability and Growth Pact
 \, as well as the design and implementation of the Recovery and Resilience
  plans. From May 2014\, he was the European Commission's Mission Chief for
  Greece\, as part of their Financial Assistance Programme. He joined the E
 uropean Commission in 1991 and has worked since then in the Directorate Ge
 neral for Economic and Financial Affairs.Stella Ladi is Professor in Publi
 c Policy at Queen Mary University of London and Professor at Panteion Univ
 ersity in Athens. She is the co-editor of European Political Science. She 
 is research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Pol
 icy (ELIAMEP). She has acted as a public policy expert at the Ministry of 
 the Interior and the Ministry of the Aegean\, Greece. She is the co-author
  of Capitalising on Constraint: Bailout Politics in Eurozone Countries\, 
 with Moury\, C.\, Cardoso\, D. and Gago\, A.Yaprak Gürsoy is Professor of
  European Politics and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE. Prior
  to joining the European Institute\, she was a Senior Lecturer and the Und
 ergraduate Programme Director of Politics and International Relations at A
 ston University. She was also a Senior Fellow at St Antony’s College\, O
 xford University and an Associate Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University.M
 ore about this eventThe Hellenic Observatory (@HO_LSE) is internationally 
 recognised as a leading research centre on contemporary Greece and Cyprus.
  In 2024\, it became the Hellenic Observatory Centre for Research on Conte
 mporary Greece and Cyprus\, with the strategy to expand its research base 
 both within LSE and beyond\, developing world-leading research on Greece a
 nd Cyprus. The new Centre is committed to critically engaging with key iss
 ues concerning Greece and Cyprus\, maintaining a non-partisan approach tha
 t fosters genuine debate among academics\, policymakers\, and the public. 
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