Ellis Athanasios

Athanasios Ellis is Editor in Chief of Kathimerini English Edition, published in Greece and Cyprus 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 world leaders and heads of international organizations, among them Joe Biden (before becoming President), French Presidents Macron and Sarkozy, Turkish leaders Erdogan, Gul, and Davutoglu, 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.