Speaker Bio

Athanasios Ellis is Editor in Chief of Kathimerini English Edition, published in Greece with the New York Times as a single paper. A long time Washington bureau chief, he has also reported from many other capitals -Beijing, Tokyo, Brussels, Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Ankara, Nicosia, Cairo- and has interviewed numerous heads of state and international organizations, among them Turkish leaders Erdogan, Gul, and Davutoglu, French Presidents Macron and Sarkozy, European Commission Presidents Junker and Baroso, and IMF Managing Directors Lagarde and Strauss Kahn. He has often appeared on international media to analyze Greece related issues. He holds a B.A. from Boston University in Economics and Political Science, and a M.A. from Boston University (Paris) in International Relations.