Notable Interviews

TECHNOLOGY
Nicholas Negroponte, Founder of MIT Media Lab
Margrethe Vestager, Executive VP of the European Commission
Mati Staniszewski, Co-founder of ElevenLabs
Christopher Wylie, Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower
Jesper Doub, Director of News Partnerships, Facebook

POLITICS
Fareed Zakaria, journalist, political commentator, author
Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, President International of New York Times Co.
Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth
Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General of Amnesty International
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-Prize Laureate Economist

CULTURE
Ocean Vuong, poet, essayist, and novelist
Lena Headey, Emmy-Award nominated Actress and IRC Spokesperson
MIKA, singer-songwriter

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NIKO EFSTATHIOU

I am a journalist, author, and public speaker from Athens, Greece with a decade of experience in print and digital media. I am currently the Editor-in-Chief of WIRED Greece, heading the launch of the Greek edition of WIRED in partnership with Condé Nast.

I was previously a journalism fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, the Managing Editor at LiFO and a journalist and media strategist for Kathimerini, and my work has appeared on the BBC, NBC News, Al Jazeera, La Libération, and the International NYT in Greece.

I have also worked as the Editorial Director at REBORRN, and a Communications Officer for WHO in Greece in 2020-2021, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. I was previously selected as an inaugural Google News Lab Fellow partnering with WITNESS Media Lab and working on new media and human rights monitoring through citizen journalism.

My reporting covers a wide range of topics, from technology to gepolitics. I have interviewed key figures in politics and culture, among them Nicholas Negroponte, Margrethe Vestager, Joseph Stiglitz, Christopher Wylie, Kumi Naidoo, Ocean Vuong.

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

I have been a presenter at TEDxAthens, Greek House Davos, and the NYT Athens Democracy Forum.

I speak fluent Greek, English and Spanish and am proficient in French and Turkish.