George Papandreou is Former Prime Minister of Greece, current President of Socialist International and Co-Chair of the Democratic Alignment, a coalition of the center-left parties in Greece, composed by the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), the Democratic Left and the Movement of Socialists and Democrats.
As Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou has been at the forefront of the global financial crisis and through complex and difficult negotiations, he managed to avoid his country’s bankruptcy, whereas he also applied a series of structural reforms to modernize his country. For this reason he was named as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2010 for “making the best of Greece’s worst year.” He has been a prominent advocate for refugee education.
