Leaders Explore How to Advance Innovation Amid Disruption at the Delphi Economic Forum

GFCC Leaders at the X Delphi Economic Forum in Greece in 2025.

Global leaders will gather in Greece this month for a timely discussion on the forces shaping the world and impacting competitiveness at the XI Delphi Economic Forum, further reinforcing the GFCC’s role as a strategic content partner to the Forum.

GFCC President and Founder, Deborah L. Wince-Smith, will moderate the panel Navigating the Frontiers of Innovation in an Age of Disruption and Discontinuity on April 24.

Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of the GFCC’s and the Council on Competitiveness global networks, the session will explore how AI, technological advancements, workforce disruption, energy transitions, and increased competition with China are challenging the global order and ushering in a period of profound disruption and discontinuity.

The session aims not only to examine emerging trends, but also to identify how the current landscape can be transformed into opportunities for innovation and competitiveness.

Wince-Smith will be joined by a distinguished group of leaders from finance, policy, and academia, offering a comprehensive and multidisciplinary perspective on these global shifts.

From Greece, Christos Megalou, Chief Executive Officer of Piraeus Bank and GFCC Distinguished Fellow, and Simos Anastasopoulos, Chief Executive Officer of Compete Greece. From Lebanon, Fadlo Khuri, President of American University of Beirut. From the United Kingdom, Bettany Hughes, Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. From the United States, Chad Evans, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board Secretary of the Council on Competitiveness, and Board Treasurer of the GFCC.

The Delphi Economic Forum will take place from April 22 to 25 this year, and will be structured around five core thematic pillars—geopolitics, planet, sustainable economy and finance, future, and people—providing a comprehensive framework to address the most pressing global challenges and opportunities shaping competitiveness.

Learn more about the GFCC’s partnership with the DEF.