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t is with great pleasure that we wrap up this third edition of the annual Compass report
by the Council on Competitiveness of Greece—a report that has carved out a place for it-
self as a trusted multi-faceted tool for developing forward-thinking structural policy. Each
Iyear, Compass produces a thorough overview of the country’s competitiveness, looking
at the challenges and opportunities facing Greece as well as the role of Greek industry and
business, synergistically as well as independently, always with one single purpose: to boost
competitiveness as a key means to achieving strong economic growth and social progress.

I would like to thank the report’s editorial team—BCG’s Vasileios Panagoulias, Chara Kaffe,
and Katerina-Markella Liakou; Deloitte’s Alexis Kontis, Marina Giorgalla, and Konstantinos
Vaitsas; EY’s Konstantinos Thanaskos, Tasos Iosifidis, and Jason Anagnostopoulos; and Pirae-
us Bank’s Paraskevi Vlachou and Artemios Leventakis—for their important contribution to
Dr VENETIA the development of the report and the analysis herein.
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Equally, I want to extend my thanks to the study groups who shared their experiences and
knowhow with us. I would also like to thank Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in charge of
Executive Director, Council on
Economic Diplomacy and Openness, Kostas Fragkogiannis; Deputy Minister of Labour and
Competitiveness of Greece
Social Affairs, in charge of Social Insurance, Panos Tsakloglou; Deputy Minister of Develop-
ment and Investments, in charge of Research and Technology, Christos Dimas; Head of DYPA,
Spiros Protopsaltis; Professors Georgios Doukidis and Katerina Pramatari of the Athens
University of Economics and Business; Annie Triantafillou, Dean of the School of Business and
Economics at the American College of Greece; Konstantinos Pouliakas at Cedefop; Christos
Cabolis, Chief Economist and Head of Operations at the IMD World Competitiveness Centre;
George Nounesis, Director and Chairman of the Board at NCSR Demokritos; as well as So-
phie Mytilineou-Daskalaki at Mytilineos Holdings, Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou at Found.ation,
Eftichia Kasselaki at EY, Haris Sahinis at EYDAP, George Tziralis at Marathon VC, and George
Hatzigeorgiou at Skroutz.