The “21st Century Governance: Critical Skills for Leading and Sustaining Innovative Organizations” was a four-day closed executive training program, organized by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and hosted by Athens Information Technology (AIT) in Peania. It was designed to offer participants analytical, management and problem-solving tools which are critical for advancing important individual and organizational goals and which are vital for generating, managing and leveraging innovation in an era of growing global complexity.

Led by faculty who are luminaries in their fields,” 21st Century Governance was designed exelusively fr senior professionals in the public and non- profit sectors in societies facing change and transition. Administered by Harvard’s Kokkalis Program and held in Athens Greece at the state-of-the-art facilities of Athens Information Technology (AIT), to provide instruction and professional enrichment in four main fields:

• Negotiation and conflict management
• Scenario planning
• Strategic Management and
• Innovation

Harvard Faculty who taught the program were:

Dr. Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government (see: http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/elaine_kamarck)
Dr. Christine Letts, Associate Dean for Executive Programs and Rita E. Hauser Lecturer in the Practice of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Kennedy School of Government (see http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Christine_Letts)
Dr. Brian Mandell, Lecturer in Public Policy and Chair of the Negotiation Project, Kennedy School of Government (see http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Brian_Mandell)
 
46 members of parliament, ministers, deputy ministers, secretary generals, chief of cabinets, general directors, vice presidents, advisors to ministers, chief of staffs and executive directors, in the public and private service of Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey attended the program.

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