Yannis Palaiologos

Yiannis Palaiologos was born in Athens in 1979. He is a journalist at inside story and Kathimerini and co-head of the journalistic initiative “Sustainable Cyclades” (www.sustainablecyclades.gr). He is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and a master’s degree in Philosophy. He has worked as a special editions editor at City Press (2006-2009) and as a director at Free Sunday (2009-2012). He served as a research editor (2013-6), opinion articles editor (2017-9), and Brussels correspondent (2020-2) for Kathimerini. During the same period (2020-2), he was a Brussels correspondent for SKAI TV and radio.

His book “The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules” on the Greek crisis was published in 2014 by Portobello Books (London). The Greek edition (Estia Publications) and a second English edition followed in 2016. He writes and comments on current affairs for international media such as the BBC, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and has contributed articles to the Financial Times, Time, Politico, Politico Europe, and the New Republic. In 2012, he was the first winner of the Citi Greek Journalism Awards for his report on PSI negotiations. He represented Greece as a Marshall Memorial Fellow for the period 2015-2016. Outside journalism, he collaborated with the Ab Ovo team on the script for the theatrical satire “Mama Greece2,” performed in Athens in 2009-10.