Yiannis Palaiologos

Yannis Palaiologos (b. 1979) is a journalist with Kathimerini newspaper and the investigative website inside story, and a correspondent in Greece for the Wall Street Journal. He is also the co-organizer of “The Jefferson-Koraes Dialogues”, an annual symposium on Euro-American relations.

Between October 2023 and April 2025, he was the co-editor-in-chief of the “Sustainable Cyclades” journalistic project, covering the consequences of over-tourism in the Aegean archipelago. Between January 2020 and mid-2022 he was Brussels correspondent for Kathimerini and SKAI TV & Radio.

He is the author of “The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules”, a book on the Greek crisis. He has written op-eds and commented on Greek matters for many top international media organizations.

Between 2009-2012, he was the editor-in-chief of Free Sunday newspaper. In 2015-6, he was selected as a Marshall Memorial fellow for Greece. He was also the recipient of the first Greek Citi journalistic excellence award (in 2012).

Outside journalism, he co-authored a satire, “Mama Ellada2”, which ran from 2009-2010 in Athens.

He was educated at Athens College and Oxford University, where he received a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (first class honours) and a B.Phil. (postgraduate degree) in Philosophy.