Katerina Sokou is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center. She is also the executive director of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce USA, a research fellow at the Greek foreign policy think-tank ELIAMEP (where she was the inaugural Theodore Couloumbis fellow on Greek-American relations), and a guest columnist at Greek daily Kathimerini. 

Sokou is founder and principal at News Intelligence, a communications consultancy, and a volunteer board member at The Hellenic Initiative Canada, as well as an advisor to the Deon Policy Institute and to Ecogenia. Her research interests include transatlantic relations and trade, international political economy, and geopolitics.

A former journalist and correspondent for Greek media in the United States, Sokou has covered a decade of US politics and US-Greece relations. She has researched the US role in the Greek debt crisis and was avisiting scholar at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. A member of the editorial board at the European Institute, she also covered the European Union for To Vima, where she started her career as a financial reporter, and supervised the coverage of the financial and Eurozone crisis as international financial news editor at Kathimerini. 

She studied history at 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.