Alexis Papahelas

Alexis Papahelas  link (Journalist, editor)
Born	Αλέξης Παπαχελάς 1961 Athens, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	Athens College,Bard College, Columbia University
US-educated Greek journalist and editor who has visited 5 Bilderberg meetings.

Alexis Papahelas is a US-educated Greek journalist and editor who has visited 5 Bilderberg meetings. In 2015, he ranked 15^th among the most influential Europeans in POLITICO magazine's list.

Education

Papahelas was born in Athens in March 1961. He attended Athens College and then went to the United States for tertiary studies. He majored in economics and history at Bard College and later received a Master's in Journalism and International Relations from Columbia University.

Career

Papahelas started his journalistic career in 1983, as the New York City correspondent for the daily Greek newspaper I Avgi, then for Kathimerini, the BBC Greek service and Mega Channel. He returned to Greece in 1998 and wrote for the newspaper To Vima as well as co-hosting the news program "Mavro Kouti " ("The Black Box") on Mega Channel for two years. In 2000, he launched the current affairs program "Oi Fakeloi " ("The Files") on Mega Channel which continued for seven years. He was also director of the news desk at Mega as well as the channel's political commentator.

In September 2006, Papahelas began writing for Kathimerini and in April 2007 became the newspaper's editor in chief. In October 2007, Papahelas began the news program "Oi Neoi Fakeloi" ("The New Folders") on Skai TV with Tasos Telloglou and Sofia Papaioannou.

interviews

Papahelas has interviewed several important political figures in Greece along with various international figures, among them the military commander of the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos, in his jungle headquarters in Mexico, Yasser Arafat in his headquarters in Ramallah, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, former UN Secretary General Kofi Atta Annan, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and financier George Soros. He has interviewed many prominent Greeks such as the politician Leonidas Kyrkos and former king Constantine.

Writings

In his first book, entitled "The rape of Greek democracy," Papahelas documented evidence of the relation between the CIA and the Greek colonels' group behind the junta. The cover of the book displayed a never-before published photograph of Giorgios Papadopoulos, which the coup later installed as dictator, on a hunting trip with Greek American CIA agents. a review wrote that "The picture that emerges from Papachelas’s reconstruction is one of a rapidly declining American ability to control Greek affairs."

In 2014, was granted the "John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service" from Bard College awarded annually to alumni of the college for "extraordinary contributions to the public interest".

He has contributed columns for The New York Times and the Guardian.

References

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