In August he opened his first-ever sector fund, and the sector he chose was financial services.
The social housing sector's first ever unconference, Housing Camp, took place last month at Thames Valley Housing's offices.
Papandreou has responded by saying the 10,000 jobs that are going immediately will be followed by another 10,000 within weeks – the first ever mass dismissals of public sector workers.
It is the largest takeover in the financial services sector and the first ever consortium bid for a bank - RBS will share the spoils with Belgian group Fortis and Spain's Banco Santander.
It is the first ever agreement that allows us to harness private sector investment and developing countries' domestic resources, including tax revenues, to turbo-charge development".
Homophobic abuse is rife in Britain's building industry, with the majority of lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) workers confronted with derogatory comments, according to the first ever survey of attitudes towards sexuality across the construction sector.
At issue is Obama's Clean Power Plan, which includes two EPA regulations that are the first ever to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector.
The sector had been waiting for the announcement of the first ever public consultation on the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the UK, now overdue by a month.
Their work has been transformed by a ground-breaking tri-partite agreement between UNICEF, the Ministry of Health and a private sector mobile phone company, Telenor, that has created Serbia's first ever database on its Roma population.
Practical Action worked with a UK-based private sector carbon broker to help the network issue the country's first ever carbon credits.
Rhys Moore, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said: "2012 brings the first ever Living Wage Olympic Games and we are hoping to make progress in sectors where low pay is the norm, such as retail".
