Elena Panaritis at Doha Conference

Online, May 29, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Elena Panaritis, Institutional Economist and Property Rights Reform Expert, to speak at Doha Conference, June 1st, 2010

June 1, 2010, Doha, Qatar- Elena Panaritis to speak on a panel addressing "The Global Economic Recovery" at this year's Doha Conference organized by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED). Other panelists include, John Sfakianakis, Chief Economist, Saudi Fransi Bank, Ambassador Wu, Member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Group of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Dr. Farrukh Iqbal, Director of World Bank, Gulf Region, Mashhour Mourad, Managing Director, ICG Investment & Financial Consulting Group in Saudi Arabia. The panel will be moderated by Amb. Charles Ries, Senior Fellow at the RAND Corporation.

By applying her distinctive methodology, Reality Check Analysis, Ms. Panaritis will offer a less traditional view of the crisis by focusing on the role of institutions, incentives, and informality in finding a more sustainable and prosperous path during economic recovery. She will call into question the current regulatory infrastructure that defines and creates assets to become securely tradable and the continued lack of a standardized repository of information about property assets.