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Economist, social entrepreneur and founder of Thought for Action (www.thought4action.com), Elena Panaritis has been invited to speak to INSEAD in  France this weekend <a href="http://www.insead.edu/Alumni/Reunions2013/May/programme/index.cfm">(Saturday 25th, Inspire Session 14.30-16.00)</a>, during a high-profile, annually held international academic meeting.

As a prototype case of a determined change-maker committed to positive contributions to local and world markets via social innovation and entrepreneurship, Elena’s work has been an inspiration to INSEAD’s graduates. Elena’s model of ‘money and meaning’ has spearheaded reforms that have improved the lives of millions of people by pulling them out of the informal sector and into a growing and healthy economy, whilst also providing a framework for profitable and ethical corporate development.<b></b>
<h2>About Elena Panaritis</h2>
Elena Panaritis is an institutional economist, social entrepreneur, and policy innovator. Until recently ago she served as a special advisor to the Greek Prime Minister and as a Member of Parliament of Greece. In more than a decade as an economist at the World Bank, Elena spearheaded several institutional/structural reforms including property rights reform in Peru that received <b><i>International Best Practice</i></b> and <b><i>Innovation</i></b> awards (10Million benefited while the return was over 150 multiple). Elena’s reform methods have revolutionized and forever changed the way people and policymakers think about them; and specifically about property rights’ reforms. As an institutional economist she pioneered social entrepreneurship, she is renowned for her success in transforming informal markets (by changing property rights) into vibrant, growing formal economic and social entities. Her book <b><i>Prosperity Unbound</i></b><i>: Building Property Markets with Trust</i> (Palgrave Macmillan) recounts her experience and expands on her methodology- “<b>Reality Check Analysis</b>”, which is considered one of the best practical applications of institutional economics to property rights issues. Robert Litan, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute and Vice President for Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Entrepreneurship calls her work <i>“a real contribution.”</i>

She is the founder of <a href="http://www.panelgroup.com/"><b>Panel Group</b></a>, a triple-bottom-line business that focuses in distressed cities and markets with high level of informality, transforming the wealth base of poor property holders, to proud middle class owners. Panel Group also provides counsel to governments and private sector on how to apply structural reforms and changes to transform illiquid assets (property) and turn markets more efficient and productive. She has also founded <b><a href="http://thought4action.org/">Thought for Action</a></b>, an educational foundation to create awareness about transforming informality and countries under solvency crisis like Greece. Elena Panaritis has taught economic development, housing finance and property markets reform courses at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, INSEAD, and the Johns Hopkins University- School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She blogs at:www.prosperityunbound.com/blog

<b>Key articles</b>

<b>Huffington post</b>:  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-panaritis/cyprus-euro-bailout_b_2897177.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications">“Cyprus bailout: A Really Bad Deal”</a> March 17, 2013

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-panaritis/european-debt-crisis_b_1959016.html">‘Why Europe Is Failing to Prevent the Spread of the Euro Crisis’</a> October 11, 2012

‘<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-panaritis/greece-debt-imf-eurozone_b_2166739.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications">Greece Is at the Crossroads With the IMF in Tow</a>’ November 20, 2012

<b>The Guardian</b>: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/22/greek-entrepreneurship-crisis">‘Promote Greek Entrepreneurship to Turn this Crisis into an Opportunity’</a> February 22, 2012

<b>The Globalist</b>: <a href="http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=9131">‘The Historical Roots of Greece's Debt Crisis’</a> May 13, 2011<h2 style="text-align: center;"></h2>
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Με θέμα την ενίσχυση και διάδοση της καινοτομίας, την προώθηση των θεσμικών μεταρρυθμίσεων και την κοινωνική επιχειρηματικότητα θα μιλήσει η θεσμική οικονομολόγος Έλενα Παναρίτη στο ετήσιο διήμερο των αποφοίτων του INSEAD, το γνωστό διεθνές πανεπιστήμιο στρατηγικής και επιχειρηματικότητας, που πραγματοποιείται στις 24 -26 Μαΐου <a href="http://www.insead.edu/Alumni/Reunions2013/May/programme/index.cfm">(Σάββατο 25 Μαΐου, Inspire Session, 14.30-16.00)</a> στη Γαλλία.

Η Έλενα Παναρίτη, απόφοιτος του διεθνούς φήμης INSEAD προσκλήθηκε με σκοπό να εμπνεύσει τους σπουδαστές για να δράσουν και να διακριθούν στο κοινωνικό επιχειρείν. Το ζητούμενο είναι η νέα γενιά να συμβάλει θετικά στην παγκόσμια εξέλιξη, μέσω της επιχειρηματικότητας που θα έχει στο κέντρο τον πολίτη και την κοινωνία.

Το INSEAD είναι ένα διεθνές πανεπιστήμιο μεταπτυχιακών σπουδών στρατηγικής και επιχειρηματικότητας με πανεπιστημιακές σχολές σε όλο τον κόσμο. Αναγνωρίζεται διεθνώς για το υψηλό επίπεδο σπουδών του και την εξάπλωση του δικτύου των αποφοίτων του με σημαντικές διακρίσεις και επαγγελματικές περγαμηνές.