Iliana Magra is a journalist with the Greek leading daily newspaper Kathimerini. Over the past three and a half years, she has reported on a wide array of topics that relate to the current state of the Greek society, covering not only last year's elections, the impact of challenges – such as the pandemic and the climate crisis –, and the ways that various developments – from the AI revolution and the war in Ukraine to the MeToo movement – are changing it, but also the experiences of groups of people that remain on the fringes of society. She has written extensively about abuse victims, about people who live in remote parts of the country, about migrants, refugees, and addicts.

 

In 2022, she broke the story of an abuse scandal in one of the country's most famous NGOs. In 2021, she was the only Greek journalist to accompany Pope Francis on his first visit to Greece and Cyprus.

 

Until her resignation in 2020, she was a staff journalist with The New York Times in London, where she covered terrorist attacks, the Grenfell Tower fire, the Brexit referendum, and the power struggle that followed it, among many other topics. Her words have also appeared in The Sunday Times and The Financial Times.

 

She studied Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, in London, while also learning Turkish as part of her degree. She is an alumnus of Anatolia College, in her native Thessaloniki.