Χρόνια Πολλά και Καλά Arianna Huffington!!!

  

Arianna Stassinopoulos-Huffington

Global Greek Publisher extraordinaire...

From all of us in this amazing Global Greek World

 

Χρόνια Πολλά, Καλά, Δημιουργικά και 
πάντα Συναρπαστικά! 

Να μας ζήσεις!!

Wishing our dynamic Global Greek, Arianna Huffington 

a very Happy Birthday and a successful year ahead on all levels!

Arianna was one of the Global Greek of the Year Nomineees earlier this year

Here's what we wrote about this charismatic lady!

2011 was a great year for Arianna Huffington!

She was named as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential for 2011, an honour she was given once before in 2006,  and sold her Huffington Post to AOL for a record $315 million!

Arianna launched Huffington Post in 2005 as a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet.

Born Arianna Stassinopoulou in Athens, Greece, Arianna moved to Cambridge, England to study Economics at the age of 16. A gifted debater, Arianna became President of the Cambridge Union, no mean achievement for a person who didn't speak English as a native language at the time.

Ambitious and gifted, Arianna's talent as a writer didn't take long to surface. Although she began writing books in the 1970's it wasn't until 1981, when she wrote a biography of Maria Callas, Maria Callas - The Woman Behind the Legend, a fascinating look at Greece's most famous Diva, that her career as an author took off. She later wrote a second biography, this time on painter Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer. Both books were considered controversial by some, but it didn't lessen Arianna's success.

Arianna moved to the USA in 1980 and in 1986 married Michael Huffington, a Republican who narrowly lost a seat in the US House of representatives in 1992, despite Arianna's exhausting campaigning and support. The marriage did not last long but the result, their two beautiful daughters are Arianna's pride and joy. Truly charismatic, a smart and intelligent woman, Arianna quickly became a household name.

Following her divorce, and the gradual change in her political views, in 2003 Arianna unsuccessfully ran as a Democrat for Governor of California against Arnold Schwarznegger. 

   

In 2005 she launched the Huffington Post which became a point of reference for all online media and a highly profitable operation.

Leaping from one success to another, Arianna hasn't looked back and credits part of her success with the Huffington Post to her mother's pivotal influence in her life...

'I get my knack for relationships from my mother. She was incapable of having an impersonal relationship with anybody. The delivery man would arrive at the house, and she'd say, "Sit down; have something to eat." As a result, I find it very easy to connect with people. And that's part of the Huffington Post. I'm bringing in voices -- some well known, some not -- and providing a platform....' from her interview in How I Did It...

In 2011 after selling the Huffington Post to AOL, Arianna stayed on as 

President and Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post Media Group. In 2011 she also launched the UK version, and just yesterday the French version, Le HuffPost.

We look forward to the Greek version, in the very near future...

PS We loved your idea of moving Davos to Greece! Behind you all the way!

Greek America Foundation's National Innovation Conference 2012

Greek America Foundation's National Innovation Conference 2012 

27-28-29th April 2012 

New York City

The Greek America Foundation's National Innovation Conference got off to a very successful start yesterday in New York City with kick-off events and welcome parties... a great way for people to get to know those they will be mixing with over the next couple of days. 

Greek Food Guru Diane Kochilas, Coaching and Communications Consultant Leda Karabela, Brand Strategist Peter Economides, Coco-Mat Founder Paul Efmorfidis, Media Mogul Arianna Huffington, Greek Filmmaker Stephanos Sitaras,  Innovation Accelerator Founder John Pyrovolakis  and many other successful Global Greek leaders and innovators are taking the time to share their 'ideas worth sharing' at the second National Innovation Conference.

Read more about the speakers and presenters here.

This year, there will be a certain emphasis on how the Greek Diaspora, including Greek Americans, as individuals, and as a community, can address the crisis and support people, institutions and organizations trying to weather the current storm in Greece.

 
As Greg Pappas, dynamic founder of the Greek America Foundation and instigator of NIC2010 and 2012 says,

 We will designate a part of this conference to the discussion of what we can do to get more involved in helping Greece and Greeks through this crisis and how we can strengthen our own institutions, goals and vision as a community in the process.


As a diaspora community that has largely assimilated into the comfort of U.S. and Canadian society, many of us are immune to the images of starving children on the streets of Athens, or homeless people waiting for hand-outs at a soup kitchen in a neighborhood that didn’t have—or even need—a soup kitchen only a year ago. 

I am a firm believer that without Greece, Greek America cannot exist. No matter how far removed we are generationally from Greece, a hyphenated ethnic community such as ours, cannot exist without a strong and stable mother country.

Congratulations to Greg and the Greek America Foundation team on another great initiative for sharing 'ideas worth sharing' that relate to how our Global Greeks can interact and relate, influencing and showcasing matters that are of great concern to all of us in our Global Greek World.

Check out the NIC website and the detailed programme of this weekend's events here.

Follow the conference via Twitter here  


Kali Epityxia! 


Good Luck!

 

Global Greek Arianna Huffington on Britain's Phone Hacking Scandal

Source:  @GGWorld Twitter Feed

Hearing about media mogul Rupert Murdoch taking to Twitter to criticise Obama, reminded us of this post by Arianna Huffington which we realised we hadn't published! Oops...

Short, sweet and straight to the point, 
a true Aristophanes style response to the News of the World phone hacking scandal
from our own Arianna Huffington on 12 July
 One of TIME100s Most Influential for 2011

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Greece - A New Beginning: 7 December 2011 - 13th New York Capital Link Investor Forum

Greece - "A New Beginning"

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Metropolitan Club • 1 E 60th Street • New York City
7:45 AM - 5:30 PM
Followed by a Networking Cocktail Reception
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC

 and 
IN COOPERATION WITH

NYSE Euronext, The Athens Exchange

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Luncheon Keynote Speech will be given by

 Professor  Evangelos Venizelos,
Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic  with
Introductory Remarks by
 

Ms. Arianna Huffington,
President & Editor-in-Chief
The Huffington Post Media Group 

Mr. Jay Collins,
Vice Chairman of Global Banking & Managing Director of the Public Sector Group
Citi

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MORNING PRESENTATION SESSIONS: GREECE - A NEW BEGINNING 

The forum’s morning sessions will focus on new economic, political, and financial developments in Greece.

• European Sovereign Debt Crisis: Searching for the End Game
• Greece’s Economic Adjustment Program: The Restructuring of State-Owned Enterprises Privatization Program
• The Legal Aspects of the Upcoming Privatization Program
• Hellenic Exchanges & the Greek Stock Market
• Investment Opportunities for Foreign Investors in the Greek Stock Market
• Restructuring as an Investment Opportunity
• Telecommunications
• Banking Sector
• Gaming & Sports Betting

AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS: 5^TH ANNUAL GLOBAL SHIPPING MARKET 

The afternoon sessions will focus on the global shipping markets, which depend on the state of the global energy and commodity markets.

• The Global Energy & Tanker Shipping Markets
• The Global Commodities & Dry Bulk Shipping Markets
• The Global Container Shipping Markets
• Analyst Panel

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
 
>> VIEW AGENDA
 There is no charge to attend the morning or afternoon sessions but if you wish to attend the luncheon there will be a fee of $125.00. For further information and to register, please call Eleni Bej at 212-661-7566 or  email Eleni
 

Related Posts: 11th Annual New York Forum and History of Capital Link 

Maria Callas - La Divina - The Legend - The Woman

Maria Callas as Medea

On 16 September 1977,  the world farewelled one of the most exceptional opera singers ever and  Greece one of her most gifted children of the diaspora...

Maria Callas died, of heartbreak some say, leaving behind her a legend. To this day, so many years later, that legend has remained undiminished. 

Maria Callas, the woman who gave the world the definition for DIVA...

Maria Callas - La Divina - the Divine One...

Maria Callas - Golden Global Greek...

Our father's great love for this brilliant performer meant that we grew up with Maria Callas... not literally of course, and when Callas passed away we felt like we had lost a member of our family. As we had most of her recordings in our record collection, Norma, Tosca, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Aida, Carmen and others, we would often sit with our father in our 'saloni', the visitor's room, where our stereo was and listen to that magnificent voice flood the room, transporting us to La Scala, Covent Garden or Epidaurus...   That room was always our father's refuge and his record collection his great joy. 


Whenever we heard Maria Callas' voice we knew he was sad, mad or just nostalgic for Greece, the homeland he would never see again...

You can hear some of his favourite and some of her most famous pieces, by clicking on video widget 'Maria Callas - The Collection' in the sidebar on the right hand side of the blog.

I remember reading everything about her that I could, and Arianna Huffington's (then Stassinopoulos) biography of her, Maria Callas - The Woman Behind the Legend, was fascinating indeed although I later learned that it was also controversial. Maria Callas' life and especially her love for another legendary Global Greek, Aristotle Onassis, meant that her life often gave the tabloids and the gossip columnists a great deal of material to work with. 

I also remember the trail of goose bumps I got when I visited Verona's Arena, the site of Callas' debut at the Verona Opera Festival in 1947, the city where she lived with her mentor and husband,Giovanni Battista Meneghini. The same feeling that I got at Milan's La Scala - the legendary Opera House where she gave some of her finest performances.

 Milan's Legendary La Scala Opera House

Earlier this year, the Athens Concert Hall hosted an exhibition  in collaboration with La Scala, of rare and magnificent costumes worn by Maria Callas in her great operatic roles.

Our photos taken at that exhibition are our tribute to the brilliant, determined and very talented Global Greek woman who was Maria Callas on this special day... a woman who was a citizen of the world, but didn't hesitate to say in an interview in Greek when she visited in August 1957, to sing at the Athens Festival at the Herodus Atticus Theatre...

'I especially belong to the Greek people,  I may have married an Italian, the whole world may have bestowed honours upon me, but my blood is Greek, and no-one can erase that' 

Hear Maria Callas' interview, in Greek, below ... and then check out the beautiful costumes from her legendary performances in the pictures which follow. 

 

 

Maria Callas and Christos Lambrakis

The Athens Megaron celebrating its 20th birthday 

pays tribute to Maria Callas

Let's Get our Global Greeks on the 2011 TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World List!

It's the time of the year when we get to find out who TIME lists as the 100 most influential people in the world! 

Among the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes that are listed every year we get to see some of the most influential people in the world - a list which includes vastly diverse personalities such as Hillary Clinton, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Barack and Michelle Obama, George Clooney, Julian Assange, The Fukushima Power Plant workers, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Lady Gaga, Christopher Hitchens and Mohammed ElBaradei to name but a few!

It has always been great to see some of our famous Global Greeks as one of those 100 Most Influential - Arianna Huffington, Professor Nicholas A Christakis, Tina Fey and Jamie Dimon were all included in previous years in the TIME list .

This year the polling is just as exciting - we have four of our Global Greeks in the running for the annual list for 2011 and we would love to see all of them included!

Here they are:

 Betty White 

Actress

 To read more about Betty and vote,  Click Here

   Arianna Huffington, 

Publisher

To read more about Arianna and cast your vote, Click Here

  Zach Galifianakis 

Comedian

 To read more about Zach and cast your vote, Click Here

Jamie Dimon 

 JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO

To read more about Jamie and cast your vote, Click Here

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Right now with three days to go, only one is going to make it into the list - Betty White, she's ranking 30th right now! Arianna Huffington  is in the 167th place while Jamie Dimon  is fairly close behind her at 174 and Zach Galifianakis  at 197!

If  you would like to vote for one of our Global Greeks as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, just click on the name under the picture of the person you want to vote for.

To check the rankings, for a full list of candidates or to read more, Click Here

Voting closes in 3 days on April 14, 2011- so let's get voting...

To all our Global Greek candidates - Good luck!

Καλή Επιτυχία!