Katerina Sokou is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and the Washington DC correspondent for Greek daily newspaper KATHIMERINI, where she is also a columnist, focusing on transatlantic relations, foreign policy and financial diplomacy since 2013. She has covered extensively the Greek financial crisis, interviewing economists and policy-makers and providing commentary and reporting for news media in the US and Europe.

As a visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs (2017-2018), she researched the US role in the Greek debt crisis and its impact on bilateral relations, presenting her research in universities across the US and Greece. Before that, she was a member of the editorial board and a contributor at the Washington-based European Institute (2016-2017).

Sokou received a BA in History with First Class Honors from the University of Ioannina, Greece. She holds an MA in International Studies from the University of Warwick and an MA in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism (2012-2013). She was also a non-degree student at the American College of Greece, where she studied Economics, and an Erasmus scholar at King’s College London, where she took classes in the Fall of Yugoslavia, Modern Greek History and audited a class on European Politics at the London School of Economics.

Sokou started her career as a financial reporter at To Vima Athens newspaper, covering Greece and the Eurozone since the introduction of the Euro, and was International Financial News editor at KATHIMERINI during the global financial crisis. At the course of her reporting, she corresponded from Brussels and Strasburg on EU policies, from China on Chinese investments in Europe, from Lithuania and Slovenia on EU enlargement, from Denmark on Europe’s social model, from the UK on Brexit, from Egypt on EU’s neighborhood initiatives and from Italy, Switzerland and Germany on European business. She speaks Greek, English, French and some German.