Andreas Dracopoulos

Seven years after his last speech in Greece, former US president Barack Obama returned to the stage of the Greek National Opera's Stavros Niarchos Hall in southern Athens on Thursday for a conversation with Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos as part of the annual Nostos conference.

Former US president Barack Obama took to the stage of the Greek National Opera's Stavros Niarchos Hall in southern Athens on Thursday for a conversation with Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Thursday with former US president Barack Obama, who is visiting Greece and will be speaking at an event at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Former US president Barack Obama will be in Athens next week and will participate in this year's SNF Nostos Conference (June 21-23), organized by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

He will join SNF Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos for a keynote conversation focused on how to strengthen democratic culture and the importance of investing in the next generation of leaders.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) has donated 3.4 million euros to Oxford University to support the expansion of its Late Antique and Byzantine studies department.
According to Professor Peter Frankopan, director of the Oxford Center for Byzantine Research, "this magnificent gift is testimony to the work done in the field of Late Antique and Byzantine studies at Oxford."

The University of Pennsylvania on Thursday announced a 6-million-dollar gift to launch the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program, inspired by the ancient Greek ideals for education.

Aimed at the university's undergraduate students, the program is designed to encourage informed civil discourse.

The president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Andreas Dracopoulos, was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Honor, Greece's highest civilian honor, by President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Monday , in a ceremony held at the Presidential Mansion in Athens. 

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (left) and Andreas Dracopoulos, president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, signed a memorandum of cooperation Wednesday aimed at upgrading the Greek public health sector. The agreement is for a grant of 250 million euros, which is to go toward building and equipping a children's hospital in Thessaloniki and new buildings for hospitals in Athens and Komotini.

Construction of two new hospitals will be able to get under way thanks to a donation of more than 200 million euros made by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to help the country's ailing health system.