Nikos Efstathiou

Nikos Efstathiou

Journalist and Author

Kathimerini English Edition, Greece

Niko Efstathiou is a journalist and author from Athens, Greece. He was Managing Editor at LiFO and a journalist for Kathimerini, and he is currently a contributing Editor at Kathimerini's English Edition. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science and obtained his Masters from Columbia University's SIPA. He has reported from Istanbul during elections and Davos during the WEF, and has interviewed Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, and Amnesty Int’l SG Kumi Naidoo, while his work has appeared on NBC News, BBC World, Libération, and the International New York Times in Greece. In 2022, he published his first book, an intimate narrative biography of Pyrros Dimas, weightlifter and Greece’s most decorated Olympic athlete in direct collaboration with him.
Niko also worked as Communications Officer for WHO’s Country Office in Greece in 2020-2021 at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and was previously selected as a 2016 Google News Lab Fellow partnering with WITNESS Media Lab and worked on new media and human rights monitoring through citizen journalism. He speaks fluent Greek, English and Spanish and is proficient in French and Turkish.