Η αφηγηματική βιογραφία του Πύρρου Δήμα, από τον Νίκο Ευσταθίου / Pyrros Dimas’ narrative biography, by Niko Efstathiou

NIKO EFSTATHIOU.

I am a journalist and author from Athens, Greece. I graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy obtained my Masters from Columbia University's SIPA, specializing in Technology, Media and Communications.

I was previously the Editor-in-Chief at LiFO and a journalist and media strategist for Kathimerini, while my work has appeared on the BBC, NBC News, Al Jazeera, Ahval, La Libération, and the International New York Times in Greece.

My reporting specializes on geopolitics and focuses on Europe and the East Mediterranean, as well as technology and culture. I have reported from Istanbul during elections and from Davos during the WEF, and have interviewed key figures in politics and culture - among them Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, and Amnesty Int’l SG Kumi Naidoo.

In 2022, I published my first book “Pyrros, on a first name basis” an intimate narrative biography of Pyrros Dimas, weighlifter and Greece’s most decorated Olympic athlete in direct collaboration with him, which grew to be a best-seller in Greece.

I 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 working on new media and human rights monitoring through citizen journalism.

I was also the Head of Media and Technology at synpraxis, a youth-oriented policy think tank for diaspora Greeks, and lived in Istanbul as a Fox International Fellow researching Ottoman archives. I speak fluent Greek, English and Spanish and am proficient in French and Turkish.

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