Katerina Sokou

Katerina Sokou

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Atlantic Council, United States

Katerina Sokou is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Europe Center, a Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, a columnist for the Greek daily Kathimerini and Principal at News Intelligence, a full-service international communications, strategy, and public affairs consultancy. Her research interests include climate change and the energy transition, regional geopolitics, defense and security, international political economy, and transatlantic relations, including trade and investment.
During her decade-long career as a journalist in the U.S., she was Washington DC correspondent for Kathimerini and SKAI TV, the inaugural Theodore Couloumbis Fellow on Greek-American relations at ELIAMEP, a visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and a member of the editorial board of the Washington-based European Institute.
Katerina graduated with a degree in History (First Class Honors) from the University of Ioannina and holds postgraduate degrees in International Studies from the University of Warwick and in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. While in Greece, she was a financial reporter at To Vima, covering Greece and the Eurozone, and International Financial News Editor at Kathimerini during the global financial crisis. She covered the Greek debt crisis from Athens and Washington DC, providing commentary to news media in the US and Europe and researching the U.S. role in the Greek debt crisis.
Katerina is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Piraeus, a director at The Hellenic Initiative Canada, and an advisor and mentor to several inspiring organizations and individuals.